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credit of my art is allowed to wear his jeans and a sweater when he's crucified in the freezing cold. this year the cross will be raised $109.00 times in front of almost half a 1000000 spectators. the pageant is an enormous project for the southern german village, with its $5000.00 residence from made to october, more than 2000 of them bring this story of christ's death and resurrection to the stage. since the over omega passion play had to be postponed 2 years ago, due to the coven hand demik, every one is now really looking forward to the opening. if a little bit of info, although with the this production will definitely be different from how it would have been in 2020 of the withdrawal alders waffle. and everything happening in the world is to warn you. crane earth evade the world is changing kind of his and so does one's view of the jesus story of to see just health diseases, christie ah.

march 2022. an unusually large number of children are on their way to the passion play theater. crowd scenes are being rehearsed for the 1st time this afternoon, and even the little ones are included. ah, many people learned the anthem leasing at jesus his entry into jerusalem at kindergarten or school. although adults may only take part of the of lived in over am a gal for at least 20 years. there are no such restrictions for children and young

adults. ah, he bought into a part for the 1st time when i was in 2nd grade on at the age of 7. but then my nickname was theater ghost. i was always in the theater when i was little, didn't like it fascinated me and just out of this fascination has never stopped us to be at dcfs in that so not me of kit obama. gow has probably never experienced to director like christie and sticker in the passion plays 400 year history since he began directing the play in 9090. he's been working tirelessly to improve the level of performance. not even a heart attack just 4 weeks ago could stop him from me. her sing for hours every day with the cast. oh

yeah. i got it. okay. not a problem. oh, here it is. oh, what i need a little bit and will oh, i think the bottom you evolve health care job. oh oh. it's mostly young people gathering around jesus. this was not always the case. though major rose generally can be given to people without any acting experience. stickle has lowered the average age of the cast significantly lindsay lindsay, while in 1990 of the 1st thing i said was up to still of

a 3rd of the leading actors must be under 30 my because i thought of the cast used to be too old to live up the actor who played peter in 1980 was 80 years old. and i thought is that a young jesus who tried to change the world at the age of $33.00 and chosen italy rolled to be the rock of his church. did them of that just not truly monmouth, in reality, really apostles were young people with has to be young people hassle, to steal nathan, ha ha ha. sticker surprised many people with his casting of judas? the fact that he chose the 22 year old genius gooder from a muslim family. puzzled, some christians. in the past all the actors had to be baptized members of the church. but for many years, this is no longer been a requirement. however, stickle expects all of his actors to think about the jesus story intensively was of is to say that there's almost no difference between the koran and the bible. that

the, the messages virtually the same. he bought the commandments. mathee, you shall honor your father and your mother. you shall not kill us. you shall not tell falsehoods. ye shall not give false. testimony in the koran also says these things, so he then, so it's the same, the message, i think the message is simple. people have to get a launch and miss me love is the most important thing in the world of the with b o . c l, i'm sorry about it. god said i was not laughing. oh, the people of obama go, don't just want to portray christ's pattern as a tragedy. they also want to show why jesus offended so many people that he was sentenced to death. his advocacy for people on the fringes of society. his message of liberation, as expressed above all in the sermon on the mount, are particularly important to christian sticker. the director discusses these

issues passionately with his actors. feed up over, especially at the beginning of every sentence, is examined carefully. arg scenes are analyzed and then rewritten while longish keep sentences are deleted and other sentences are additive gentlemen. that process takes many months. this is and puts us of a feeling monitor this is andrea het, a passion play. christiane stickle has picked her to play mary, the mother of jesus for a 2nd time. the dream role for many over am ago women meters. net like no. i don't really. i don't want to compare it, but why does every girl want to be a princess and hardly any of them will become one. maria mary is more attainable and alma alexander rolliger photos of the blessed virgin mary magdalen from previous productions are displayed

in the windows of the passion play office. the roles have not only changed visually, only unmarried women, no older than 35, were allowed to take part in the passion play up until 1990. as a mother of 2 children, 60 year old andrea haste wouldn't have had a chance. a court had to open the rolls to all women. yes or t c a feel a lot has changed to the cast now has many more women. in fact, there are so many that christian stickler had to divide them into groups. few. otherwise there'd be too many. it simply doesn't work if 80 percent of the spectators at the crucifixion are women with hardly any men come when i took it, it's in it. though many things are different, the tradition itself remains unchanged. the people of ober amico had been producing their passion play every 10 years for almost 4 centuries. when plague struck the

village in 1633 decimating the population, the residence of obama. gov vowed to perform the story of the passion. if the carnage stopped, the village continues to honor this pledge, but this tradition has also never done over amok house economy any harm. the pageant is become world famous and triggered a wave of tourism that brought prosperity to the alpine region. even in the 10 years between productions, the passion play continues to shape over armico. photos of the actors and director are displayed in shop windows apps kinda ne amanda schenectady, because, ah, yes, i fly via bear. cindy could be to death ice club at us in the facial prophy is in owns of an in yellows. so there are 2 stickers involved in this production. father and son. could it be

any other way. busy christian's father played the part of anna's high priest and father in law to chi. if a slit ye do him dance, lug latest at home with peter sticker, a book of photographs appears with each production a treasured keepsake for cast members. peter stickle has played the high priest kaya f as twice and suntrust yon ensured that he made a good impression both times as the tenure rhythm was broken by special productions . this is peter sticklers, 10th passion, play. if at all possible, he says he'll be involved again in 2030 and the kettle of thought of i'm part of the village kit. and if you belong to the village, you have to take part in the theatre. otherwise you don't belong such gifts to call

it the 2. i thought this is an it's priscilla for night to her. the 20 my photos. k for us, seymour from behind the stairwell is full of momentos, of past productions. peter stickle has been in the play since he was 7 to 4. young christiane can also be seen in the photos back then. no one imagined he'd become one of over amigos. most successful directors was always, but it hasn't all been easy here. sometimes encountered massive resistance from villagers when trying to make innovations. try the tool, calling the tradition can only survive if it is maintained it. if you stick to intimacy, but you have to keep working on it, otherwise it'll become stale. it'll die. nobody would want to see it any more with his company. christian does. every production differently pissed them off the bus. he'll understand how this noise consists with thousands of 1000. same of it's martha sure. with on the

blue is the scene is not as idyllic as it looks. the spring sunshine has lured to costume designers outside ironing, cutting, hemming and sewing. are also done in the theaters workshops, making 1800 costumes cost a lot of time and money with there's also hammering drilling and lashing on stage to day the crews trying to sell up a tent to frame the last supper should have an hug and i had the idea he's been designing stage sets for the passion play since 2000. the theaters looked the same since 1933 decades earlier. the auditorium gained

a roof. it has since been rebuilt again and again, they're still allowed to do before the audience can take their seats here in mid may. ah, the closer it gets to the opening, the smoother the production becomes. just 4 more weeks. jesus willingly accepts his death, although judas urges him to resist. he refuses director christiane stickle has been convinced for years that jesus, his renunciation of violence, was central to his message. another passionate discussion with actors. if you're available, we can take them in as of the demon to linkage,

longish letter. like if someone slaps you on the left cheek, turn your right to him as well. that doesn't happen. if we can't let herself be hit, then i say if you hit then the other guy his back couldn't, and then you hit again and it doesn't get any better from any people. this is a disturbing story. good to go to some extent to one where you feel almost this, the path we have to take is even after 40 years of doing the passion play. and i still find the story exciting would be the more ever jesus or raises a lot of questions for me personally. we're bill farrah. you personally are feeling wrong of oh, oh oh oh, by the mo schuster is playing the part of mary magdalen for the 2nd time. while the disciples hide in fear,

mary magdalen doesn't leave jesus. his side was in the upper flare of the apostles . holland on the strength that women demonstrate that mary his mother or mary magdalen, his friend, or closest ally. it shows that women sometimes take on more money. if i do it after the crucifixion, it's the women who make their way to jesus tomb. mary magdalen becomes the 1st witness of the resurrection. oh mary magdalen proclaims the central doctrine of the christian faith for barbara schuster. it makes it that much more incomprehensible that women are still barred from becoming catholic priests. oh, yes, i do have monopolies them. a black lin, people didn't believe mary magdalen, that the 2 was empty and that he had risen from the dead men had to be sent. it's

now 2022 and we're still discussing whether a woman can become a priest. it's all the same. they got stuck in simply their outdated, isn't it for who it? i mary magdalen expressing her joy at the resurrection is one of the climaxes of the play. the performance always challenges her to reexamine her own faith. the access to the faith that we as principal actors have really changes us, be it through our pilgrimage to israel all through the discussions we have with christine, who is still very well read. ah, 3 blue, a press conference for the 1st time since the coven postponement. sticklers presenting the passion played to the media. he's accompanied by the mayor of over am ago and by marcus swing, dinged up on argona,

who as composer and stage designer share responsibility for the production journalists asked to go about the place religious impact york debbie if we could have a similar number of people leaving the church, we have a similar number of believers as of other towns. i don't think the passion players made us any more pious. lou lou, an unusual picture for over am ago. a decidedly young audience gathers in front of the theater. bad weather can spoil the mood for the 1st time in the please history . christiane stickle has organized performances, especially for young people. the group can now see the 5 hour play at a steep discount and discuss it with the director and cast history calculator. i'm studying art history and know very little about christianity. i'm not even quite sure who's who in the story. that's why i wanted to see it. and han

word is out that it can get quite cold during the performance. the passion play theater has 4 and a half 1000 seat visitors from all over the world come to the special perform. this is for quite a few. the passion play is a religious experience. this is a cup, comma on the earth for me or save my sites for other people. for christmas one my god more foster and it might strengthen my faith to see how jesus suffered and what he did for us on our thoughts from. yeah, as hasn't gotten molly, he's the son of god and unique. it's a unique story we are redeemed through death. yeah, that's why i find it so impressed isn't important. and i always think at

the temple scene begins with a tumult. jesus isn't blonde today. he has black curls. the main roles are double cast and the actors alternate today. it's rocco's worker who drives the traitors out of the temple. for yeah, i ah different to read the bible or i mean be read at church and seen. it's a life and stage i hope that it can really bring to life the story of the question . ah

this on the road to go gotta jesus meeting mother. even though it's a story of suffering, the message of easter, the resurrection always resonates in an undertone. mistake kind of mine alicia. i don't just want to portray a tearful virgin mary from florida. she's allowed to cry sometimes be sad, but basically i'd like to portray a woman who has great confidence in her faith in her path, out and in god. what after 3 years of intense preparation, opening night is final year. representatives of religious communities, actors and television personalities, politicians and other celebrities gather at the theater. outside formation since

people are turning away from the church, it's important to have events that connect us with christianity. doesn't have to be church with youngsters as i ha, ha, ha ha! even if the last sample is arranged like a renaissance painting, stuco seize his christ in a broad religious context. when jesus says the hebrew prayer, and where's the keeper like his disciples, there was no doubt that he feels fully jewish. ah, the intermission comes after 2 and a half hours, shortly after appearing in the last supper. jesus can be found in lederhosen, engrossed in conversation with the lutheran regional bishop act afraid of my ebt,

isn't intimidated by the celebrity audience. continued. none of us mock me. i'd only make myself nervous thinking about who sitting out front of me. the worst thing for me is that my grandma and mother are watching today. my that's what gives me the most stage. right. i'm a sophie with the actor even for a bishop, it's unusual to be photographed with jesus ish. i know, go over. it's an incredibly moving production that you can feel how the actors are giving it everything they've got. and the story is presented so vividly immersed the thought it was a drive to a ceiling fan and it's for like the 5 exciting is probably the wrong word for a story when you know how it ends up, but they make it exciting. his mom, that's impressive. does is from bundle is this is fatima, it's the 4th time i've seen it so and it's the most moving. i've experienced it early, excuse me and feel the deep religiousness. and that's something that also touches me. he said softly.

oh, the 2nd act of the passion reaches its dramatic climax in the crucifixion. oh, director stuco was met with great resistance 10 years ago when he wanted to stage the crucifixion in the evening rather than the afternoon while jesus of nazareth breathed his last mary magdalen to hugs. the cross almost tenderly. he added, is it, is it in the mainland? she wants to feel him again to touch him. yes, she's looking for jesus doesn't lily intimacy with him? when he has given him his last cry, his cry to god, she goes straight to the cross and tries to touch him, which he called,

reaching up with her arms and she almost tries to climb the cross just to reach him to feel close to him. this and to show him that she's there and it's not being in love, but a deep connection is ah, following the gospel narrative, the criminals executed on either side of jesus are finished off by the soldiers. however, when they come to jesus, the centurion sees that he's already dead. in spite of all the artistic license, the production remains faithful to the gospel. that's because for much of the audience, the passion play isn't simply theater. those little either in the are people in the theater hall, whom it is a lot and justice theatrical performance or a play. that's why we have to be careful. bob host schuster knows from her own family, how much the passion play can become a religious experience fit for them. it was almost like going to church to perform

here was something sacred and it would be like that for them now, like church here. oh, when the people of oberon regarding jesus down from the cross for the last time in october, and then commemorate the resurrection, the whole village will celebrate. oh, life which had to take a back seat for a year. we'll re emerge. but by 2028. at the latest, the people of oprah alma gal will be preparing again for the next passion play job so long. the wal mart. as long as the people of obama go argue about itself,

as long as they feel strongly about it. i think it will survive on currently. i don't have any sense that it's reached. it's expiration date up. it'll only die when we no longer give it enough luffy. lemme get you to come up with blue. ah ah ah, with

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