This is the premise that takes the audience through a sprawling array of testimonies from witnesses that include Pontius Pilate (George Stallings), Mother Teresa (Gabrielle Gulledge), Sigmund Freud (Aaron Lockman) and Satan (Michael Woods).
He won’t defend himself and the court hasn’t appointed a representative, so, in the tradition of plucky upstart attorneys, Fabiana Aziza Cunningham (Julie Partyka), daughter of a lapsed pastor and a gypsy, has made herself his defender in a trial that invites historical figures to debate the motives of Christianity’s least-popular apostle. Judas (Alexander Utz) has betrayed Jesus (Matthew Harris) by handing over the man some consider the son of God in exchange for a fistful of silver. Purgatory is a suburb in the ghettos of the afterlife in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.” Populated by neither the holy nor the damned and represented largely by the interior of a courtroom, over which a deceased Confederate soldier presides as judge of those who have come to petition their status, it might as well be Birmingham, Alabama and you a trespasser on the wrong plantation.
Andy Blaustein and Alexander Utz/Photo: Katie Hunter
0 kommentar(er)
