as the times are good for the day. warming doesn't do very. gentle does well but yet. the industry is controlling your thoughts from the great bluffs of the 20th century. the present day hoax is. treated my world. during ignorance starts a search on double. every 10 years the spotlight forms on a small town and if area when its residents recreate the story of christ suffering

and death half a 1000000 visitors flocks into oberammergau they come from all over the world but the villages don't perform the passion play just a tourist they do it because they made a vow to god to commemorate his goodness in this way when the plague the black death threatened their village with extinction 400 years ago as i type this person spear the passion play lives from the fact that we have a message as many people and that we derive that message from the gospels that we ask ourselves what's important today that's mine and we focus on particular aspects of the story that's most like those that we look for the themes that are important for contemporary society of course the death of jesus is central to the passionate like his but we ask why did he die on the cross on his own courts that's what we need to focus on the. why were the people so angry why were the religious leaders against him why did people follow him and what did he want to achieve we have to show all that in our past. at least that's our intention avoiding that cycle.

oktober 2018. preparations are underway for the next oberon macau passion play. in a few minutes the names of the 2020 cost will appear on the sport. for the past 10 years the director christian struggle has wrestled with the difficult question which of the town's residents is most suited to trade jesus or his mother mary who punches pilot now he's made his choice and it's been confirmed by the town council behind closed doors bowing to the ghost by lifting big able on the in every

other theater in the world the director chooses the cast he wants but here it's not so simple that every resident born in or around the gulf or is lived here for 20 years has the right to a role in the passion play so whether i want to or not i have to cast them i never start with a number for my 1st production in 1900 i have 1400 adults now we have 900 adults and 450 children to cuba and i like the fact that the qualification of being born in the overall market now you are living here for 20 years says nothing about the personal social standing or religions of their gender or their orientation mix shift the debate over all there was was if this is a cross-section of our village to the stores this. is a lot of media interest who will try jesus to act as a chosen one of them has already played the role twice. frederick myatt remembers the 1st time he was cost. the majority don't want to opt in i wasn't

expecting it because i was an all of the part and then suddenly i saw my name on the board and i was gobsmacked it changes your life from one day to the next in that he says leaving sean as the man who portrays christ you have a responsibility towards the village and the passion play off as a few of the focus of attention and you have to deal with that it. must be over again. there are 2 actors for each of the main roles they alternate in more than $100.00 performances but everybody listed on the board knows that their life will change after a month super hosting they will perform the passion play for half a year that's hard to reconcile with a normal job to have a place one of the main roles usually has to take vacation for the length of the run the passion play demands everything of the participants.

but it's not just the main roles that are announced today christians to kill an assistant director up to look aracoma have also decided who used to play roman soldiers and residents of jerusalem. more than 2000 people will take part in the production. for most families it's a tradition that's passed down from one generation to the next the home during the past few in that yes that tradition is almost 400 years old everybody has pictures in their home showing grandad as a roman soldier or grandma is mary magdalene or your book that either everybody has some kind of connection with and even people who have just arrived in the village or want to be involved in some way but it could be that basically the seat of the for 12 months people hardly talk about anything but the passion play because you'll get people's personal visual for that. at the show has been good. what role is the

talk of the town in a few months the so-called hair and beard to be proclaimed from then on men may no longer shave will cut their hair less of course they're roman soldiers for me here in the here's a song for me personally it's a sign that we're all getting ready for the passion play. quite literally growing into the role by her to her name of allah the night of oxen. with a population of some 4 and a half 1000 program account 100 kilometers south of munich on the northern edge of the alps germany's highest peak the pizza and king movie the 2nd sperry child linda hold a close by no wonder the village is one of the various most popular tourist destinations . although the passion play is staged only once every 10 years it has a permanent influence on the village. the gospel story is painted on the facades of houses in all its area actions. the numerous souvenir shops so carvings of saints

apostles and crucifixes. over on mcdowell represents you should you shouldn't that makes the gospel narrative accessible in many forms. the villages crucifix carvers are as famous as its passion play which has been attracting visitors since the 19th century. film with them were english and critics as it was free the british the swedish and the danish royals and the austrian hausberg have all been here little. frederick myatt knows he'll be tied up here for the next 10 months 5 times a week from mid may until october the residents of oberammergau will rehearse jesus's suffering and death each performance lasts more than 5 hours it's a mammoth undertaking devised to come from for the $1500.00. 1000 visitors come

from all over the world to see the passion play at the end is jesus you are at the center of things and that's where you just so you have a responsibility each day that you appear on the stage to perform as well as you possibly can to go to bed early the night before to no other lives and to stay healthy because really actor portraying jesus has had a bad day it's especially noticeable on those of. his a festive atmosphere in oberammergau out today the villages enjoy celebrating and they also like to do so on stage 12 months before the passion play they put on a show depicting the play that led to the village committing itself to a tradition of religious theatre. was the midst of. this. experience $1633.00 the black death is ravaging southern germany bringing still more death and destruction in the wake of the 30 years war the village goes into

lockdown to stave off the epidemic but a man from a neighboring village already infected with the plague manages to circumvent the watchmen the result is predictable my. the black death carries off children women and men but. thanks to grave digger played by raucous ripple who's also one of the actors portraying jesus in the passion play as his hands for my finally the residents of oberammergau discover a way out of their suffering how did she say i guess i'd say more. than just a concept that my dad. other. once a week gosh if. he misses out. on the last

saturday. i feel that i was asked about. the promise to stage a passion play every 10 years eventually defeated the plague the village chronicle relates that from the day they took the vow nobody in the village died of the disease what i decide this year that i am. in. the world i've. looked over the 20th 2018 on this day it's not just actors appearing on the stage at the ober-ammergau theater but real priests in an ecumenical service the village residence for a new devout. 1633 as they did before every stage into passion play. i did this this i think it might be fresh. fish so back out to.

this press you won't be out of. the jewish christian music my choir must among speak is one of the great passion hymns in the trump publishing obama going on the day i was on the knesset so i think there's a different approach to religion in obama but often outside of the church the church has the same problems here as in the neighboring villages in the. us i think life. forms don't view that passion play is a specifically catholic event and have been for decades that went to right to christian gave one of the main roles to a muslim cool something of a stir. i can also pray in arabic because we muslims also pray in arabic the. mind of god from my whole family

who live as muslims even my relatives in turkey and in the my grandmothers and grandfathers and my cousins are all pleased you know this age they know very well that it's a christian play but they say it's great you're doing it. you don't have to be a christian to understand religion. we've. been the constant presented to the media this special interest in the fact that. a muslim will be playing a train teaching. you consider yourself as a whole i've been asked if it's a provocation that a young man from a turkish family is playing judas no it's not just in casting the roles might only consideration is who i can envision playing who i see in the role. how good to see on stage. that. they'll devour sheep and cattle they will not stop to get worked out.

winter 2019 the 1st rehearsals of cold they held in the town smaller theater the actors familiarize themselves with a new script in small groups playing judas janus crew tries to persuade jesus to lead a rebellion against the roman occupiers this concentrated work on the script opens up new perspectives. man you suspect that's what i mean and i think that my image of jesus has changed a bit after all the changes to the script were changing the performance a bit and also seeing the roles a bit differently so he's also thought to myself yeah that's what jesus is really more than jesus and that is what he was a person who wanted to teach people how to behave towards each other to love one another and even when it's hard. it's violence is no solution it's a divide this can and you have to draw the good out of people's this and not simply hope for the best schools and people have to stand up and do something themselves

and the people don't understand that dimension is touched on if they're stupid. when somebody slaps us in the face we're supposed to tolerate it. you know they're. still cool isn't system the act is imagine how they carry it to thinks and feels this involves dealing with religious issues. if you do so if you aren't really interested in what we're pretty strange here and that includes an interest in religion then you can be part of it in many of the discussions we've had here of course i've noticed that he brings a different perspective a muslim perspective to the last supper and other things he has a genuine interest in the production of the bell south where. you go to lead them the people will rise and will drive the wretched romans from our land . you do not be afraid of the romans do not be afraid of those who kill the body

but cannot kill the soul whether be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body love your enemies. i need a course in 100 most most of course when you have one of the big roles you have to approach it differently it was possible and i must say i found a completely new understanding through the passion play and by portraying jesus as myth in team and not on. i think about the themes and she says this message it slightly differently. i have to say i've developed a new enthusiasm for the themes from it i view it as a great gift to be able to think about these issues so intensely and since it's the myth otherwise you can perhaps only do this as a student of the ology we have the opportunity to think about them intensely every 10 years and i know it's.

not often after years assistance if i thought of accounting often used to think that jesus is arrogant when he says i am the way but i think he means it differently so i am the way to god to show you i'll tell you if you do this and be like this decision of this is side in which we live would be better and jesus is often quite pragmatic and straightforward talk matters and he says if somebody is hungry give him something to eat and when somebody is naked even close that's got something for when he's a stranger give them shelter that's very simple. and that's what makes me think of so i jesus is like a compass as a device he knows what's good and what's bad is of you to mention actually everyone knows intuitively what's good and what's bad uses for in jesus challenges us to follow that inner voice and say do what's good and don't do what the bad. and

that's very simple that's consonant. orientate you on god not in what's better in the world what sort of and what's more just best service in the event of a stiff this event and to stop. he's a decent and i think that churches have sometimes forgotten how to bring this message across. they often focus on whether it's right to let divorcees who remarried go to communion in the bishop so suddenly important. but jesus was definitely with the people. they mention he broke bread with judas. nobody's perfect and so you have to be able to forgive and he shared bread with somebody who maybe did something wrong by this human. life i think jesus wouldn't think about it for a 2nd when it went off thinking they've been stuck in my skin than marriages can crash sometimes it happens like this incites but when somebody finds

a new partner he shouldn't be excluded off of the he also just lost and done a lot of. then if you think this. does not have the. sort of god. david ignatius. the mafia it's. only it was that we this is my 4th production and i remember when i was 25 and directed the passion play for the 1st time the actor playing jesus had to take a lot from me was i was a young rebel so jesus had to be rebellious too it was very important to me that jesus was rebellious. but one grows older and suddenly in 2010 i thought it's not important to me at all whether he's allowed to take and suddenly i discovered places in the gospels that said i will not cry out and one will not hear

my voice in the streets he wasn't somebody who got ahead through a noise and rebelliousness but resolutely and it's really interesting that you discover jesus a new every 10 years makes. and it's that's what's on for the 2020 production the context only became much more important to me that the refugees and people on the margins of society are treated with the i discovered the social g.'s this much more strongly and i thought it's crazy that there were similar social issues 2000 years ago the i was a stranger and you didn't give me shelter if i was poor and you didn't give me anything to eat in that then if you look in that direction you suddenly find that jesus gives very clear answers as to how we treat foreigners and refugees or people on the margins of society we shouldn't treat them as we do it's not what jesus intended.

oberammergau out in the group of be sure cold even though they haven't been the usual heavy snowfalls this year the passion play theater is the largest building in if you know each and was constructed in 898 is specially to stage the play some other musical and theatrical performances also take place here but it's 1st and foremost the passion play theater. it is. the full rehearsals are held in freezing temperatures for the 1st time in the history of the passion play each actor is registered at electronic li attendance at rehearsals is compulsory another reason to check attendance even actors playing minor roles receive some financial compensation. the men under c.s. to malpractise the 1st rehearsals in the passion play theatre to give you

a wonderful feeling. before that is a song to rehearsed in a little theater that's implied that the i would hear you have the feeling that these people are people you have hardly seen for 10 years in the minds of the. only the village gathers and stands together on the stage in the future and there are many wonderful people among them soon south of a met on scene you come to the passion play theater for the 1st time aged 4 or 6 or 7 then 10 years later you're a teenager and you recognize that it's a great experience inside the village has a great time putting on this production with an audience of people develop an emotional connection to the passion play the very young as a child or as a teenager that's the office you know if the the youngest have just as much right to be on stage as the oldest people over 90 and it's a great experience for all of them and wonderful times to and it's.

this year of the shadows by alarming reports of a life threatening virus on march the 11th the world health organization to pit kinds of 19 pandemic could the place to be staged the. with just 3 months to go before the 1st performance unfinished props lie scattered around the world to turin. officially says this but the passion play is part of our d.n.a. we need it as you get that feeling at rehearsals i have it now when i call a rehearsal for 450 kids they come straight away for bottom isn't going to form little groups run around and shout big ones that are bail out or shout softly sabriel sheep and goats kick up our racket partners to get out of the. the that's the orchestra pit watch out how. you get this week

i always say that's why the passion play has survived so long because it's our biggest social event. everyone makes up from every section of society women men children and teenagers old and young or if you do it simply out. our biggest social event and everybody wants to take part is. that i. think outside the surface changed to colusa hands on direct. for all the after the august ball well guess both have them on the box right what they have got have made their right hand. have faith that it was no i don't think the chunk of off of. much $92025.00 flags at the entrance to advertise the great event but a shadow whose forum on the production is shia the village council which even

embellish its kind of bombs with the passion play as cool to press conference the play has to be cancelled you said that to me because i overcome ago has of course become economically dependent on the passion play and this will probably hit lots of people hard. what we've seen very clearly at rehearsals during the past few weeks is that the residents of oberammergau are totally committed to their passion play and everybody sorry it won't take place now you want to have the moment at that moment i felt almost relieved but the actors were also standing around the square other people who i knew were crushed by the decision they take an unpaid vacation or dropped out of university for a term used to. go you for hearst almost every evening for months on end. all of them did the month it was a it was like a bubble burst a little bit with and i also feel deflated to. be able to talk

a little plots. not to upset when they cancelled the play lots of people were depressed so was i it was like somebody flew in the rug out from under your feet all my plans for next year were turned upside down it's not all it was decided yesterday evening that we won't cancel the passion play so it's postponed until may 21st 2022 for if you can. it's i want to call that the threat of a pandemic what's made oberammergau famous for $400.00 g. is has now temporarily closed the village. the portrayal of christ's suffering and death which the residents of oberammergau vowed to perform when their village was struck by the plague in 1633 famously ends with christ's resurrection that message of hope is part of our program

a gas legacy this time the actors will just have to wait another 2 years to proclaim it that this thoughts are good christiane stukas said everyone will play the same parts will all come together in 2 years let's hope it's in good health you know i'm already looking forward to it.

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