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god. was. every 10 years the spotlight forms on a small town and of 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 to phone a 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 one 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 one that's more than we focused on particular aspects of the story this was after that that we look for the things that are important for contemporary society of course the death of jesus is central to the

passionate like his but we ask god why did he die on the cross on his own courts that's what we need to focus on this year's worth of us 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 passions life at least as our intention avoiding that cycle. october 28th change. preparations are underway for the next oberon macau passion play. in a few minutes the names of the 2020 cast will appear on this board. 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 put trade jesus well his mother mary punches pilot now he's made his choice and it's been confirmed by the town council behind closed doors both of those funny thing big given on that 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 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 pass that i never start with a number from my 1st production in 1900 i had 1400 adults now we have 900 adults and 450 children to keep that and i like the fact that the qualification of being born in oberammergau your living here for 20 years says nothing about the personal social standing or religion or their gender or their orientation.

this is a cross-section of our village stores this. is a not a media interest who will put jesus to act as a chosen one of them has already played the role twice. frederick myatt remembers the 1st time he was cast. from authority. 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 come with to be. 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 months of rehearsing 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 whose to play roman soldiers and residents of jerusalem. more than 2000 people will take part in the production. for most a gram a cow families it's a tradition that's passed down from one generation to the next. the fossil fuel 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 more your book that he that was it 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 that passion because you'll get people's personal spiritual for that. that that was. his being. even what role is the talk of the town in a few months the so-called hair and beard easy to be proclaimed from then on men may no longer shave or 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 of a soldier quite literally growing into the role it was by her to her name of allah the night of oxnard. with a population of some 4 and a half 1000 ober-ammergau lies 100 kilometers south of munich on the northern edge of the alps germany's highest peak this soup and king would fit 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 variations. been immersed souvenir shops so carvings of saints apostles and crucifixes. other am a gal represents a tradition 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 former english green excels it was with the british the swedish and the danish royals and the austrian hausberg been here a 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 ober-ammergau will rehearse jesus's suffering and death each performance lasts more than 5 hours it's a mammoth undertaking device to come from from a $1500.00. 1000 visitors come from all over the world to see the passion play and is jesus you are at the center of things and that's where you go 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 know other lives and to stay healthy because really after portraying jesus has had a bad day it's especially noticeable on those off. is a festive atmosphere in oberon macau 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 theater. 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. to the grave digger played by raucous ripple who's been so 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 i want to say because i see. that as a godsend that i have to carry. other. big gosh. yes he said i was such. that i shall have. to 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 well. i decide this here carol. i've looked over the 2020 a chain on this stage 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 of 16. 33 as they do before every stage of the passion play. i get this this i get side effects. kiddo bamako. this past year should be out. of the. israeli jewish christian music my choir must among speak is one of the great passion hymns in the truck bomb going on the bells on the set 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. house i have received life. forms don't view their passion play isn't

specifically catholic event and haven't for decades the winter right to christian gave one of the main roles to a muslim because something of a stir. is kind of off. but i can also pray in arabic because we muslims also pray and arabic. 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 or state. when the cause is presented to the media this special interest in the fact that chink is good or a muslim will be playing a train teaching jews. it is for all this is for. i've been asked if it's a provocation that a young man from a turkish family is playing judas now it's not just in casting the roles my only

consideration is who i can envision playing better who i see in the role i was how good. on stage. with me finish. you know they'll devour she been tattle they will not stop to get worked out a little bit. 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 genius crew tries to persuade jesus to lead a rebellion against the roman occupy as this concentrated work on the script and something new perspectives. menus a spitter to him i think it's fine and nothing got 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 that's what jesus is really more

than jesus meant that 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 is a divide this can and you have to draw the good out of people's this and not simply hope for the best people have to stand up and do something themselves and the people don't understand that dimension is trashed and 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 person.