The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot
by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Off-Broadway Off-West End
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Highlights

120 mins Present Day Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes Religious Christmas

Synopsis

THE STORY: Set in a time-bending, darkly comic world between heaven and hell, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT reexamines the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner.

Press Reviews

"A real jaw-dropper. Expressionistic fantasy… raw language and flamboyantly street-savvy characters… [Guirgis’] imagination is dazzling and his command of language downright thrilling."

— Variety

"An extraordinary play… not since Angels in America have I seen a play so unafraid to acknowledge the power of the spirit."

— The Guardian

"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot 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… Mr. Guirgis is a zealous and empathic researcher, and he presents dilemmas of ancient Galilee in terms winningly accessible to the 21st century."

— The New York Times

"One of the most passionate and powerful young playwrights to have come down the theatrical runway… A must for anyone interested in the work of thoughtful and original playwrights."

— Curtain Up

Characters

Character
Gloria
Mother Teresa
Judge
Caiaphas The Elder
Saint Matthew
Loretta
Mary Magdalene
Sister Glenna
Pontius Pilate
Uncle Pino
Bailiff
Simon The Zealot
Sigmund Freud
Matthias Of Galilee
Saint Thomas
Jesus Of Nazareth
Judas Iscariot
Saint Monica
Henrietta Iscariot
Butch Honeywell
Fabiana Aziza Cunningham
Yusef El-Fayoumy
Soldiers
Satan

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Publication

Year 2006
Binding Paperback
Edition Edition Unstated
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822220824
ISBN-10 0822220822
LCCN 2007541229
LCC PS3607.U49 L37 2006b

The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot is a religious play written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2006).

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