![]() ![]() Yet the OSU production, under the direction of Jimmy Bohr, has enough verve to make what could have been a static play thoroughly engaging and finds a nice rhythm between courtroom scenes in which the Marx Brothers would have felt at home and quieter ones in which the apostles reflect on their experiences with Judas. An extended monologue at the end seems anticlimactic. Guirgis squeezes in too much historical information and allows each character long speeches in which to justify his actions. Judas spends much of the play seated on a platform above the action.Īt three hours, the play could use some trimming. They call witnesses, including a questionably ethical Mother Teresa (Liz Light), a prim Sigmund Freud (Andy Anderson) and a show-stealing Satan (John O.S. In front of petulant Judge Littlefield (Zachary Owens), feisty attorney Fabiana Cunningham (Ashley Rae Kobza) argues Judas’ case, while smarmy Yusef El-Fayoumy (Alex Boyles) takes the opposing side. The play is set up as a courtroom trial for Judas (Kyle Rutkowski) in a version of purgatory that looks like an abandoned warehouse. The two-act Stephen Guirgis play, presented by Ohio State University, doesn’t arrive at any new answers to such questions, but it opens them up in both fiercely comic and quietly poignant ways. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot gets a lot of mileage out of questions that have troubled Christians for centuries: Who is to blame for the death of Jesus, and what was the fate of the disciple who betrayed him?
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