The Passion Play

The Passion Play is the play that shows the death, the resurrection, and the days and miracles surrounding it. The stage itself was extremely realistic, it was told to me that it could have been taken straight out of Jerusalem itself. Within the play itself were animals such as: donkeys, doves, and sheep. During one of the acts, when Jesus was clearing the Temple, he sent the doves flying as he turned over tables ran around the room cracking his whip. As all the doves were finally gathered many told me that one kept flying around and around for about three more acts, and people were dying with laughter. The play also had some of the miracles that Jesus performed like raising Lazarus from the dead, his trial, death, and his resurrection, and through out all of this was a man, representing the devil, who would be standing in the background encouraging Judas, watching people suffer, finally showed himself at the death of Jesus to all who was watching. The death of Christ was so realistic that when they whipped Him he actually bled, and they actually hung Him on the cross, and to so many this was the most powerful thing that they have ever known. Everybody who went on that trip knows the story of the death of Christ, but actually seeing it was something that really opened many of their eyes.