STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP

01/24/2012 6:30 pm
Elliott Bay's Drama Book Group, Stages, meets once a month to read, enjoy and discuss great plays and dramatic works, contemporary and classic, from the U.S. and around the world. Our first selection for the new yeart is Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play. Here we have a three-and-a-half hour intimate epic, plunging the depths of the timely intersection of politics and religion. Ruhl dramatizes a community of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1575 northern England, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual; 1934 Oberammergua, Bavaria, as Hitler is rising to power; and Spearfish, South Dakota, from the time of Vietnam through Reagan’s presidency. In each period, the players grapple in different ways with the transformative nature of art, and politics are never far in the background. Please join us!

Passion Play (Paperback)

$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781559363488
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Theatre Communications Group, 5/2010

Location: 
Street:
The Elliott Bay Book Company
Additional:
1521 Tenth Avenue
City:
Seattle
,
Province:
Washington
Postal Code:
98122
Country:
United States