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ah, frederick, my aunt is allowed to wear his jeans and a sweater when he is 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 the story of christ's death and resurrection to the stage. since the over amigos passion play had to be postponed 2 years ago, due to the coven, han demik, every one is now really looking forward to the opening. if resumed with heating for although with the this production will definitely be different from how it would have been in 2020 of be withdrawn altars waffle and everything happening in the world. east of the war and ukraine. earth evade the world is changing. kind of has been sought as one's view of the jesus story of to see if she self 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 learn, the anthem leasing at jesus is entry into jerusalem at kindergarten or school. although adults may only take part of the of lived in over am ago for at least 20

years. there are no such restrictions for children and young adults. ah, he bought in 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 unsure like it fascinated me. death out of this fascination has never stopped us to get on to the person that she will not me of kit obama gal has probably never experienced to director like twisty 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 her sing for hours every day with the cast. oh

big i had. i not i thought of it. oh, what do you live? oh oh, oh, oh you did both did evolve. health care job. oh, i love it. it's mostly young people gathering around jesus. this was not always the case though major roles generally can be given to people without any acting experience. stickle has lowered the average age of the cast significantly lindsey quarreling

1990. the 1st thing i said was up to select 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 has little to steal . nathan, i ha, i stickers 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 horror that no difference between the koran and the bible. the, the message is virtually the same. he brought the commandments multi. you shall honor your father and your mother. you shall not kill us. you shall not tell falsehoods. you shall not give false. testimony in the koran also says these things through it, and so it's the same, the message. i think the message is simple. people have to get along and miss me. love is the most important thing in the world of b o. d l. i thought it was that it got that 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 christianity sticker. the director discusses these issues passionately with his actors. feed up over, especially at the beginning of every sentence, is examined carefully, bark 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 a possessive of feeling monitor this is andrea haste. 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 i'm a girl, women meters network like, you know, 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, elegant around the go. 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. yosemite, sir, 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 an 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 beth and it could be to death as clobbered as in the facial prophy east in on 7 in years.

so there are 2 stickers involved in this production, father and son. could it be any other way. busy christians, father played the part of anna's high priest and father in law to chi, if a slit ye to him dance lug lightest at home was peter sticker. a book of photographs appears with each production a treasured keepsake for cast members. peter stickle has played the high priest chi office 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. okay, thoughts of doris? 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 prepare for ne, to who the 250 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 who saw it, but it hasn't all been easy here. sometimes encountered massive resistance from villagers when trying to make innovations thrive. it's your calling. the tradition can only survive if it is maintained it. if you stick to it, 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. you'll understand how this 92000 so doesn't seem that it's martha. sure with on this

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 $1800.00 costumes cost a lot of time and money. there's also hammering drilling and lashing on stage to the the cruise, trying to set up a tent to frame the last supper, should have an hug. naya had the idea, he's been dishonest, sets for the passion play since 2000. the theaters looked the same since 1933

decades earlier. the auditorium gained a roof in it since been rebuilt again. and again, they're still allowed to do before the audience can take their seats here in mid may. oh, the closer it gets to the opening, the smoother the production becomes. just for more weeks. jesus willingly accepts his death. although judas urges him to resist. he refuses. director christiane chuckle 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 for. for many people, this is a disturbing story. good to some extent to one where you feel almost this, the path we have to take is that even after 40 years of doing the passion play and i still find the story exciting would be the more ever in jesus or raises a lot of questions for me personally, we're bill farrah. you personally are feeling wrong of ha, ha ha ha ha . ah bodamer 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 office where all the hostile zoned are, the strengths that women demonstrate that marry 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. your ha, 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 priest. 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 continually. they're 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 re examine her own faith. the access to the survey found 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 play to the media. he's accompanied by the mayor of over i'm ago and by marcus swing inch to van hog an idea. who as composer and stage designer

share responsibility for the production journalists asked to go about the place, religious impact, your belief we can have a similar number of people live in the church. we have a similar number of believers as in other towns. i don't think the passion players made us any more pious. lou lou, an unusual picture for over i'm ago, a decidedly young audience gathers in front of the theater. bad weather can spoil the mood for the 1st time in the place 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. until one

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 performance for quite a few. the passion play is a religious experience. or cup, comma on the earth for me, or save the my study. on the people for christmas on my global 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 impress isn't important and i always get

the template scene begins with the tumbled. jesus isn't blonde today. he has a black curls. the main roles are double cast and the actors alternate. today it's rockers. will go who drives the traitors out of the temple? they thought so yeah. i ah different to read the bible or i mean be read at charge and seen it's a life and stage. i hope that it can really bring to life the story of the question . ah

i i on the road to go gotta jesus meters. even though it's a story of suffering, the message of easter, the resurrection always resonates in an undertone. is mystic kind of vine alicia. i don't just want to portray a tearful virgin. mary thought 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 and in god 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 for mentioned, 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 started, young scourges. 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 a hebrew prayer, and where's the keeper like his disciples, there was no doubt that he feels fully jewish. ah no, 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 it

isn't intimidated by the celebrity audience that continues. none of us mock me, i don't make myself nervous thinking about who's 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? a sophie with the actor, even for a bishop, it's unusual to be photographed with jesus. this is an ongoing that it's an incredibly moving production that you can tell how the actors are giving it everything they've got. and the story is presented so vividly emerge. the thought i drive to ceiling, fan, it is 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 mouth. that's impressive. does his son and or is this is phillip in my head the 4th time i've seen it 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. oh, well jesus of nazareth breeds his last. mary magdalen hugs the cross almost tenderly. he added he didn't leave it in. no man, no. she wants to feel him again to touch him here she's looking for jesus isn't the 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 is there, i got it. not being in love that 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. the theologian thought 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 then now, like church here. ah. 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. o aah! private 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 gow will be preparing again for the next passion play just 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's all only died when we no longer give it enough luffy, the mac can you can to come up with blue ah ah, with

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