preparations are underway for the next oberammergau passion play. in a few minutes the names of the 2020 cast will appear on this board. for the past 10 years the direct to christian struggle has wrestled with the difficult question which of the town's residents is most suited to portray jesus well his mother mary who punched this pilot now he's made his choice and it's been confirmed by the town council behind closed doors both of those funny thing to give on the key out there 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 cast that if i never start with a number from my 1st production in 1900 i had 1400 adults now we have 190450 children to cuba and i like the fact that the qualification of being born in oberammergau your living here for 20 years says nothing about the person a social standing or religion their gender or their orientation mix lift all th

residents recreate the story of christ's suffering and death half a 1000000 visitors folks 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 plate the black death threaten 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 when that's mine and we focus on particular aspects of the story that's was like that 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 and that's what we need to focus on the sort 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 like at least that's our intention avoiding that

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