商品簡介
Passion Play is Sarah Ruhl's "biggest, most ambitious effort yet" (The New York Times), a three-and-a-half hour intimate epic, plunging the depths of the timely intersection of politics and religion. Ruhl dramatizes a community of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1575 northern England, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual; 1934 Oberammergua, Bavaria, as Hitler is rising to power; and Spearfish, South Dakota, from the time of Vietnam through Reagan's presidency. In each period, the players grapple in different ways with the transformative nature of art, and politics are never far in the background, as Queen Elizabeth, Hitler, and Reagan each appear, played by a single commanding actor. - Publisher.
作者簡介
Sarah Ruhl's plays include in the Next Room or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist; Tony Award nominee, Best Play), The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Dead Man's Cell Phone, Eurydice, Melancholy Play, Late: a cowboy song and Orlando.
