The Oberammergau Passion Play

Essays on the 2010 Performance and the Centuries-Long Tradition

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9603-7 (ISBN)

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Every ten years since 1634, the Bavarian village of Oberammergau has performed the world's most famous Passion Play, recounting the last days of Jesus Christ. In 2010, presenting the play for the 41st time, the village broke with tradition to offer a new interpretation for a post-millennial, international audience.

Drawing on interviews with villagers and international responses, this collection of new essays provides an analysis of the play by scholars who attended. Topics include changes in response to charges of anti-Semitism, how the play defines the village, how the performance changes the audience, and a comparison of Oberammergau 2010 with American Passion Plays, Indian pilgrimage drama and other German Passion Plays.

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., is a professional actor and director whose previous books have covered topics ranging from Star Wars to Renaissance faires. He is a professor and chair of the theater department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Forty-First in the Twenty-First (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Part 1. Oberammergau 2010: Responses

The Role of Their Lives, or Jesus on a Bike: Oberammergau on Stage and Off (Glenn Ehrstine)

“What’s a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a Catholic play like this?”: Oberammergau 2010 and Religious Identity (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Dialectical Aesthetics of Change and Continuity in the 2010

Oberammergau Passion Play (Sharon Aronson-Lehavi)

Part 2. Comparative Oberammergaus

Spiritual Voyeurism and Cultural Nostalgia: Anglophone

Visitors to the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1870–1925

and 2010 (Joshua Edelman)

Atemporality in the Heidelberg Passion Play, the Passion Play

of Oberammergau and Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play: A Cycle (Jutta Eming)

Tableaus and Selves in Vrindavan and Oberammergau (David Mason)

Oberammergau in America/America in Oberammergau (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Part 3. Interviews

An Interview with Frederik Mayet (Actor, Christ) (David Mason)

Passion Playing: An Interview with Sarah Ruhl on the Shaping

Influence of Oberammergau (Jill Stevenson)

Conclusion: Forty-Second in the Twenty-First: Oberammergau 2020

Works Cited

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	11 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7864-9603-7 / 0786496037
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-9603-7 / 9780786496037
Zustand	Neuware