Oberammergau Passion Play
Essays on the 2010 Performance and the Centuries-Long Tradition
Oberammergau Passion Play
Essays on the 2010 Performance and the Centuries-Long Tradition
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Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN: 9780786496037
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 06/02/2017
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
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.
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
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
