it's jesus is really more than jesus and that is he was a person who wanted to teach people how to behave towards each other to love one another even when it's hard. it's violence is no solution as it divides can and you have to draw the good out of people's this and not simply hope for the best souls and people have to stand up and do something themselves and the people don't understand that dimension is pushed on if they're stupid. when somebody slaps us in the face we're supposed to tolerate it. you know. you know they're. still cool isn't system the act is imagine how they can get to thinks and feels this involves dealing with religious issues. that they see fit if you aren't really interested in what we're pre-training here and that includes an interest in religion and you can't 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 perspectives to the last supper and other things he has a genuine interest in the production truck. if you do go to lead them the people will rise and will drive the wretched romans from our land . do not be afraid of the romans do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul rather be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body love your enemies. and on course no one has the most was 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 i think about the themes and jesus message it's light differently . and i have to say i've developed a new enthusiasm for the themes for me i view it as a great gift to be. to think about these issues so intensely insincere 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'm going to set. up another get after his assistance if i thought i 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 the decision of this is side in which we live would be better and jesus is often quite pragmatic and straightforward not theirs and then he says if somebody is hungry give them something to eat and when somebody is naked even close to scott's and

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 the uses for in jesus challenges us to follow that inner voice and say do what's good and don't do what the bad just to listen for that's very simple that's consonant. orientate you are 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. he's a boat 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 and the bishops are suddenly important. but jesus was definitely with the people. they mention he broke bread with judas people. nobody's perfect

you have to be able to forgive and he shared bread with somebody maybe did something wrong like this and. i think jesus wouldn't think about it for a 2nd that it would often. soften my skin the marriages can crash sometimes it happens. but when somebody finds a new partner he shouldn't be excluded off of the he also just lost and then a lot of. them if they think this is. going to. die and believe they should. be mocked if it's. on it's it was will be 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 to get there 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 loud. 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 if that's what's on for the 2020 production the context stubbornly became much more important to me that's how refugees and people on the margins of society are treated. i discovered the social jesus much more strongly and i thought it's crazy that there were similar social issues 2000 years ago that we have i was a stranger and you didn't give me shelter if i was poor and you didn't give me

anything to eat if you look in that direction and 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 the so-called even though they haven't been the usual heavy snowfalls this year the passion play theatre is the largest building in the village and was constructed in $898.00 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 theatre. 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 elektra mcleish 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 my part this is the 1st rehearsals in a passion play theatre to give you a wonderful feeling and before that a song to rehearsed in a little theatre that's employed but here you have the feeling that these people are people you've hardly seen for 10 years in the minds of this. suddenly the village gathers and stands together on the stage in the future and there are many wonderful people among them soon south of all the fun is met on scene you come to the passion play theatre 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 kids as a child or as a teenager that's the office you know after 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 too and it's. this year at rehearsals one of the shadows by allowing reports of a life threatening virus on march the 11th the willed health organization to pit close that 900 pandemic could apply still be staged the. it's just 3 months to go before the 1st performance unfinished props and scattered around the word tory and. the police this is 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 it was for the bottom isn't going to form little groups run around and shout big about out or you shout stop it stop

me old sheep and goats pick up a racket i thought before that that was that's the orchestra pit watch out how. you kept this week i always say that's why the passion play has survived so long because it's our biggest social event. everyone needs out from every section of society women men children and teenagers old and young or if you do it simply out. the biggest social event and everybody wants to take part is. that i. was. 8 i'll start this. is a hands on to write down. for all the effort of the august long august both have the fox dr who had have made their right hand.

have faith that it was no i don't think the talk of office. much $92023.00 flags at the entrance to the abaco advertised the great event but a shadow whose full on the production this year the village council which even embellish its come to terms with the passion play has cooled to press conferences the play has to be canceled you said. 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 evolving from 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. be only for hirst almost every evening for months on end. all of them did the month it looked as if i was a it was like a bubble burst a little bit and i also feel deflated to. be able to talk with the plots. not to upset when they cancelled the play lots of people were depressed so was i it was like somebody pulling the rug out from under your feet all my plans for next year were turned upside down. it was decided yesterday evening that we won't cancel the passion play so it's postponed until may 21st 2022 for shipping. it's i want to call that the threat of a pandemic what's made ober-ammergau famous for $400.00 g.

is has now temporarily closed the village. to portrayal of christ suffering and death which the residents of ober-ammergau 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 on the actors will just have to wait another 2 means to proclaim it but to start submit christiane's decodes that everyone will play the same parts will all come together in 2 years let's hope in good health i'm already looking forward to it.

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