Like his but we ask god why did he die on the cross on his own courts thats what we need to focus on the sort of us why were the people so angry why were the religious leaders against him why did people follow him and what did he want to achieve we have to show all that in our passions life at least as our intention avoiding that cycle. October 28th change. Preparations are underway for the next over on macau passion play. In a few minutes the names of the 2020 cast will appear on this board. For the past 10 years the director Christian Church to call has wrestled with the difficult question which of the towns residents is most suited to portray jesus while his mother manny punches pilot now hes made his choice and its been confirmed by the town council behind closed doors building that goes by lifting big even on that in every other theater in the world the director chooses the cast he wants but here its not so simple that every resident born and. Lived here for 20 years has the right to a role in the passion play so whether i want to or not i have to cast them if i never start with a number from my 1st production in 1900 i had 1400 adults now we have 900 adults and 450 children to cuba and i like the fact that the qualification of being born in the overall market you are living here for 20 years says nothing about the person a social standing or religion their gender or their orientation. This is a crosssection of our village to the stores this. Is an office of media interest who will try jesus to act as a chosen one of them has already played the role twice. Frederick myatt remembers the 1st time he was cost. Im a tory thought i want to opt in i wasnt expecting it because i was an odd part and then suddenly i saw my name on the board and i was gobsmacked it changes your life from one day to the next in that he says leaving sean as the man who portrays christ you have a responsibility towards the village and the passion play off as a few of the focus of attention and you have to deal with that report on to be home again. There are 2 actors for each of the main roles they alternate in more than 100. 00 performances but everybody listed on the board knows that their life will change after months of rehearsing they will perform the passion play for half a year thats hard to reconcile with a normal job to have a place one of the main roles usually has to take vacation for the length of the run the passion play demands everything of the participants. But its not just the main roles that are announced today christians to kill an assistant director up to look aracoma have also decided who used to play roman soldiers and residents of jerusalem. More than 2000 people will take part in the production. For most families its a tradition thats passed down from one generation to the next home to i mean fast given that yes that tradition is almost 400 years old everybody has pictures in their home showing grandad as a roman soldier or grandma is Mary Magdalene more your book that he that was over it everybody has some kind of connection with and even people who have just arrived in the village or want to be involved in some way but it could be that basically the seat of the for 12 months people hardly talk about anything but the passion of the couple because youll get peoples personal spiritual for that. That thats. His being. What role is the talk of the town in a few months of the socalled hair and beard easy to be proclaimed from then on men may no longer shave will cut their hair less of course they remain soldiers for me here in the heres a song for me personally its a sign that were all getting ready for the passion play. Quite literally growing into the role but here to hear any of the 9 voxel. With a population of some 4 and a half 1000 oberammergau lives 100 kilometers south of munich on the Northern Edge of the alps germanys highest peak the sushi pizza and king would fit the 2nd spirit child policy linda hold a close by no wonder the village is one of the various most popular tourist destinations. Although the passion play is staged only once every 10 years it has a permanent influence on the village. The gospel story is painted on the facades of houses in all its variations. The numerous souvenir shops so carvings of saints apostles and crucifixes. Ogram a gal represents a tradition that makes the gospel narrative accessible in many forms. The villages crucifix carvers are as famous as its passion play which has been attracting visitors since the 19th century. Some with them were english and green excels it was free the british the swedish and the danish royals and the austrian hausberg have all been here little. Frederick myatt knows hell be tied up here for the next 10 months 5 times a week from mid may until october the residents of oberammergau will rehearse jesuss suffering and death each performance lasts more than 5 hours its a mammoth undertaking devised to come from for the 1500000 visitors come from all over the world to see the passion play and as jesus you are the center of things for us so you have a responsibility each day that you appear on the stage to perform as well as you possibly can to go to bed early the night before to know other lives and to stay. Healthy because really after portraying jesus has had a bad day its especially noticeable on the. This is a festive atmosphere in oberammergau out today the villages enjoy celebrating and they also like to do so on stage 12 months before the passion play they put on a show depicting the play that led to the village committing itself to a tradition of religious theater. Was the midst of. This. Experience 1633. 00 the black death is ravaging southern germany bringing still more death and destruction in the wake of the 30 years war the village goes into lockdown to stave off the epidemic but a man from a neighboring village already infected with the plague manages to circumvent the watchmen the result is predictable my. The black death carries off Children Women and men. To great data played by raucous ripple whos also one of the actors portraying jesus in the passion play has his hands full. Finally the residents of oberammergau discover a way out of their suffering i can honestly say i guess id say. Thats a godsend that my dad other. Once a week come and see the shit. He received. Over the last saturday. I feel that i shall have. To promise to stage a passion play every 10 years eventually defeated the plague the village chronicle relates that from the day they took the vow nobody in the village died of the disease but i still say this here and am. In. October the 20th 20 a change on this day its not just actors appearing on the stage of the oberammergau theater but real priests in an Ecumenical Service the village residence for a new devout. 1633 as they did before every stage into passion play. I think this this i think it might be a fresh. Fit. To. Be out. Of. Israel a jewish christian music my choir must a modest speak is one of the great passion hymns in the trunk in the bom im going on the bells on this at some i think theres a different approach to religion. But often outside of the church the church has the same problems here as in the neighboring villages. That have received life. Forms dont view their passion play is specifically catholic event and havent for decades but went direct to christians who gave one of the main roles to a muslim because something of a stir. I can also pray in arabic because we muslims also pray in arabic. When it comes to my whole family who live as muslims even my relatives in turkey in that my grandmothers and grandfathers and my cousins are all pleased with this age they know very well that its a christian play but they say its great youre doing it. You dont have to be a christian to understand religion or state. When the conses presented to the media this special interest in the fact that chink is good or a muslim will be playing the trains he changes. It is for yourself if. You will ive been asked if its a provocation that a young man from a turkish family is playing judas no its not and casting the role is my only consideration is who i can envision playing better who i see in the role. How good to see on stage. The good. Shot. Theyll devour sheep and cattle they will not stop to get worked out. This. Winter 2019 the 1st rehearsals of cold they held in the town small theater the actors familiarize themselves with a new script in small groups playing judas jenga screw tries to persuade jesus to lead a rebellion against the roman occupiers this concentrated work on the script opens up new perspectives. When you suspect its him i mean nothing my image of jesus has changed a bit after all the changes to the script were changing the performance a bit and also seeing the roles a bit differently so hes also thought to myself thats what jesus is really more than jesus and that is why he was a person who wanted to teach people how to behave towards each other to love one another even when its hard. Its violence is no solution given this kind of you have to draw the good out of peoples this and not simply hope for the best selves and people have to stand up and do something themselves and the people dont understand that dimension is pushed on if theyre stupid. When somebody slaps us in the face were supposed to tolerate it. Here a lot of. These you know theyre. Still cool isnt system the act is imagine how they carry it to thinks and feels this involves dealing with religious issues. That they see fit if you arent really interested in what were pretty strange here and that includes an interest in religion and you cant be part of it in many of the discussions weve had here of course ive noticed that he brings a different perspective a muslim perspective to the last supper and other things he has a genuine interest in the production truck. If you do go to lead them the people will rise and will drive the wretched romans from our land. You do not be afraid of the romans do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul whether the afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body love your enemies. I need a course in the 100 most most of course when you have one of the big roles you have to approach it differently it was possible and i must say i found a completely new understanding through the passion play and by portraying jesus team in order. I think about the themes and she says message it slightly differently. I have to say ive developed a new enthusiasm for the themes from the heart i view it as a great gift to be able to think about these issues so intensely and see the mythos otherwise you can perhaps only do this as a student of the ology we have the opportunity to think about them intensely every 10 years and i know its a said. He. Never not often after his assistance if i thought of all counts i often used to think that jesus is arrogant when he says i am the way but i think he means it differently so i am the way to god to ill show you ill tell you if you do this and be like this decision if this is side in which we live would be better and if jesus is often quite pragmatic and straightforward talk matters and he says if somebody is hungry give him something to eat and when somebody is naked even close to scotts and when hes a stranger give them shelter thats very simple. And thats what makes me think of so i jesus is like a compass as a device he knows whats good and whats bad is of you to mention actually everyone knows intuitively whats good and whats bad uses for in jesus challenges us to follow that inner voice and say do whats good and dont do what the bad just to listen for thats very simple thats consonant. Orientate you on god not on whats better in the world what sort of and whats more just best service in the event of a stiff this event and to stop. Hes a hes a poacher and i think that churches have sometimes forgotten how to bring this message across if they often focus on whether its right to let divorcees who remarried go to communion in the bishop so suddenly important. But jesus was definitely with the people. By dimension he broke bread with judas. Nobodys perfect and so you have to be able to forgive and he shared bread with somebody maybe did something wrong with human. Life i think jesus wouldnt think about it for a 2nd to get off thinking and suck in my skin than marriages can crash sometimes it happens like this inside but when somebody finds a new partner he shouldnt be excluded off of the he also gets tossed into a lot of. Them if they think is. That he should not have. Had. Time to leave if you. The markets. It was that we this is my 4th production and i remember when i was 25 and directed the passion play for the 1st time the actor playing jesus had to take a lot from me it was i was a young rebel so jesus had to be rebellious too it was very important to me that jesus was rebellious. But one grows older and suddenly in 2010 i thought its not important to me at all whether hes loud. And suddenly i discovered places in the gospels that said i will not cry out and one will not hear my voice in the streets he wasnt somebody who got ahead through a noise and rebelliousness but resolutely and its really interesting that you discover jesus a new every 10 years makes. If thats whats on for the 2020 production the context stubbornly became much more important to me thats all refugees and people on the margins of society are treated. I discovered the social jesus much more strongly and i thought its crazy that there were similar social issues 2000 years ago the i was a stranger and you didnt give me shelter if i was poor and you didnt give me anything to eat if you look in that direction you suddenly find that jesus gives very clear answers as to how we treat foreigners and refugees or people on the margins of society we shouldnt treat them as we do its not what jesus intended. In the group of bishop cold even though they havent been the usual heavy snowfalls this year the passion play theater is the largest building in the village and was constructed in 898. 00 is special into stage to play some other musical and theatrical performances also take place here but its 1st and foremost the passion play theatre. It is. The full rehearsals are held in freezing temperatures for the 1st time in the history of the passion play each actor is registered at electronic li attendance at rehearsals is compulsory another reason to check attendance even actors playing minor roles receive some financial compensation. The men under c. S. To malpractise the 1st rehearsals and the passion play theatre give you a wonderful feeling. Before that song too rehearsed in the Little Theatre thats in the but here you have the feeling that these people are people youve hardly seen for 10 years in the minds of the. Only the village gathers and stands together on the stage in the future and there are many wonderful people among them soon south of all the fun is met on scene you come to the passion play theatre for the 1st time aged 4 or 6 or 7 then 10 years later youre a teenager and you recognize that its a great experience inside the village has a great time putting on this production with an audience of people develop an emotional connection to the passion play the very young as a child or as a teenager thats the office to know the youngest have just as much right to be on stage as the oldest people over 90 and its a great experience for all of them and wonderful times too and its. This she agreed to schools one of the shadows by allowing reports of a life threatening virus on march the 11th the World Health Organization detailed kind of that 900 pandemic could the place to be staged the. With just 3 months to go before the 1st performance unfinished props lie scattered around the world to turin. Italy is the passion play is part of our d. N. A. We need it as you get that feeling at rehearsals i have it now when i call a rehearsal for 450 kids they come straight away it was for the bottom isnt going to form little groups run around and shout big that i doubt or you shout softly softly all sheep and goats kick up our back and forth with a lot of the. What was thats the orchestra pit watch out there with this big i always say thats why the passion play has survived so long because its our biggest social event. Everyone meets up from every section of Society Women men children and teenagers old and young or if you do it simply our. Biggest social event and everybody wants to take part i think thats right that i. Was. Gay ill start this. Is a hands on direct to help. For all the after the august low well guess both have it was the tribes who had not have made their get. Their hats had to chalk out i dont think the trunk up off of. Much 92020. Flags at the entrance to advertise the great event but a shadow whos full on the production this year the Village Council which even embellishes its kind of bonds with the passion play as cool to press conference the play has to be cancelled the thrilling bitch of a bunch of overcome ago has of course become economically dependent on the passion play. And this will probably hit lots of people hard. What weve seen very clearly at rehearsals during the past few weeks is that the residents of oberammergau are totally committed to their passion play and everybody sorry it wont take place now you want to have the moment at that moment i felt almost relieved but the actors were also standing around the square other people who i knew were crushed by the decision they take an unpaid vacation or dropped out of university for a term used for the food that would be you know you for her almost every evening for months on end. All of them did the month it looked as if i was a it was like a bubble burst a little bit with and i also feel deflated to. Be able to talk a little plots. Off the opposite when they cancelled the play lots of people were depressed so was i it was like somebody calling the rug out from under your feet all my plans for next year were turned upside down its not all of it was decided yesterday evening that we wont cancel the passion play so its postponed until may 21st 2022 for if you can. Its i want to call that the threat of the pandemic whats made oberammergau famous for 400. 00 g. Is has now temporarily closed the village. To portrayal of christ suffering and death which the residents of oberammergau vowed to perform when their village was struck by the plague in 1633 famously ends with christs resurrection that message of hope is part of our parama gas legacy this time the actors will just have to wait another 2 years to proclaim it. To start certainly christiane said everyone will play the same parts will all come together in 2 years lets hope its in good health you know im already looking forward to it. 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