The Oberammergau Passion Play

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., is a professional actor and director whose previous books have covered topics ranging from Star Wars to Renaissance faires. He is a professor and chair of the theater department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: ­Forty-First in the ­Twenty-First (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Part 1. Oberammergau 2010: Responses

The Role of Their Lives, or Jesus on a Bike: Oberammergau on Stage and Off (Glenn Ehrstine)

“What’s a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a Catholic play like this?”: Oberammergau 2010 and Religious Identity (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Dialectical Aesthetics of Change and Continuity in the 2010

Oberammergau Passion Play (Sharon ­Aronson-Lehavi)

Part 2. Comparative Oberammergaus

Spiritual Voyeurism and Cultural Nostalgia: Anglophone

Visitors to the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1870–1925

and 2010 (Joshua Edelman)

Atemporality in the Heidelberg Passion Play, the Passion Play

of Oberammergau and Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play: A Cycle (Jutta Eming)

Tableaus and Selves in Vrindavan and Oberammergau (David Mason)

Oberammergau in America/America in Oberammergau (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Part 3. Interviews

An Interview with Frederik Mayet (Actor, Christ) (David Mason)

Passion Playing: An Interview with Sarah Ruhl on the Shaping

Influence of Oberammergau (Jill Stevenson)

Conclusion: ­Forty-Second in the ­Twenty-First: Oberammergau 2020

Works Cited

About the Contributors

Index