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3 unusual facts about passion play


Great Rail Journeys

Great Rail Journeys has also developed a range of ‘Special Interest Holidays’ featuring visits to Viennese Balls Europe’s major carnivals including Venice and Nice and, for 2010, tours to Oberammergau to see the world famous Passion Play.

Passion Play: a dramatic fragment

The play was first published nearly a century after its writing by the Windhover Press, University of Iowa in 1971.

Thomas Wendell McVay

During this time he was instrumental in bringing the Passion Play to Lake Wales.


Christ of the Ozarks

This is the site of seasonal annual outdoor performances of "The Great Passion Play", styled after that of Oberammergau, Germany.

New Jerusalem theater

The idea surges after his readings in a magazine about a German city (Oberammergau) who was doing something similar called Passion Play.


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Northcott Theatre

In its first years, the company originated a number of plays of West Country interest, including new historical drama by Jack Emery and an adaptation of the Cornish Passion Play.

Peter Nichols

"Did you know that Maggie Smith once accused Laurence Olivier of having "a tin ear and two left feet"? That's one of many enjoyably acerbic snippets in Peter Nichols' Diaries 1969–77, a period that stretches from the composition of his The National Health to the conception of his masterpiece, Passion Play....Nichols tends to be touchy, crusty, disappointed with himself....yet wonderfully observant, honest and likeable." Benedict Nightingale The Times 13 December 2000.

Preston bus station

On Good Friday 2012, the bus station was the venue for the Preston Passion, a passion play involving thousands of people forming a 'human cross', televised live on BBC Television.