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Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible’s most notorious sinner. This latest work from the author of Our Lady of 121st Street “shares many of the traits that have made Mr. Guirgis a playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life’s losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in lowdown street talk. [Guirgis brings to the play] a stirring sense of Christian existential pain, which wonders at the paradoxes of faith” Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“A real jaw-dropper. [Guirgis’s] imagination is dazzling and his command of language downright thrilling.” -Marilyn Stasio, Variety
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"In this riotously funny court room drama, history's most famous sinner Judas Iscariot is dissected by the forces of good and evil in (a corner of Purgatory resembling) downtown New York."
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a wildly funny court-room drama in which history's most infamous betrayal is dissected by forces of good and evil. In a court room that owes as much to the ghetto to the Gospels, figures such as Pontius Pilate, Mother Teresa and Sigmund Freud are called to testify in a trial of God and the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth versus Judas Iscariot.
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DON'T MISS THE LONDON, ONTARIO PREMIERE OF ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW SCRIPTS IN YEARS!
Opens October 28 The Grand Theatre McManus Studio Stage Presented by Iglesia Theatre Productions
