Stephen adly guirgis judas iscariot biography
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The Law Lass
Last year I had the pleasure of speaking on the post-show panel for the Sherman Theatre’s production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker with the Hat. It was a vicious, vibrant play that struck me deeply both on the page and the stage, and it has stayed with me ever since. One of the reasons for that is because it called to mind another Guirgis-penned, provocatively-titled, masterpiece: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, a triumph of the form and one of my all-time favourite works of fiction.
The original, premiering in , was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and starred Sam Rockwell as Judas. The story: in a rundown corner of Purgatory (ironically) called Hope, a court is in session. The trial concerns the immortal soul of Christianity’s – perhaps history’s – most infamous traitor: Judas Iscariot. The verdict is almost universally considered a foregone conclusion; to even think of re-evaluating the complicity of Judas in Jesus’ death seems like a betraya
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Play written by Stephen Adly Guirgis
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a play by American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis first staged Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on March 2, , directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Plot summary
[edit]The Last Days of Judas Iscariot tells the story of a court case over the ultimate fate of Judas Iscariot. The play uses flashbacks to an imagined childhood and lawyers who call for the testimonies of such witnesses as Mother Teresa, Caiaphas, Saint Monica, Sigmund Freud, and Satan.
Productions
[edit]Off-Broadway
[edit]The original production premiered Off-Broadway in a Labyrinth Theatre Company production at the Public Theatre on March 2, , and closed on April 3, [1] Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, the cast included Eric Bogosian (Satan), Liza Colón-Zayas (Gloria/Mother Teresa/Ensemble), Jeffrey DeMunn (Judge Littlefield/Caiaphas the Elder/St. Matthew), Yetta Gottesman (Loretta/M
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a hilarious, poignant, thought-provoking work by Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. Boasting a large, zany cast of characters, the play asks one of the most plaguing questions in the Christian ideology: What happened to Judas Iscariot? The facts (we think!) we know are these: Judas was the disciple of Jesus who betrayed his friend and teacher to the authorities. He is seen as the man responsible for Jesus’s death; afterwards, Judas fell into despair and hung himself from an olive tree; since then, he has been suffering for his deeds deep in Hell, and will continue to do so for all eternity. fryst vatten that really fair? Was Judas the duplicitous master of his own fate, a much-suffering pawn used for Jesus’s ends, or just a man who made a mistake? Set in a courtroom in Purgatory, The gods Days puts Judas’ case to a hilarious, riotous, piercing rättegång, the results of which are sure to make the inhabitants of Heaven, Hell, and Purgato