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Latest News on the play in 2010
From this month on, well update you with all the news happening on and off stage leading directly to the premier on may 15 - 2010
See one of the old testament living pictures
After Jesus was taken from the cross, see the cross with the white linen that where used to lower him from the cross.
Encounter with the risen one scene
Crucifiction sceness
Actor Fred Mayet playing Jesus
Anton Preisinger playing Kaiphas - the highest jewish pries
Director Christian Stückl explaining actor Andreas Richter as Jesus on how to fall with the cross
Andreas Richter, Jesus Actor carrying the cross to Golgata
Set to the scene "way to Golgata"
Two of the three crosses on the set
priests are waiting for their scene on the way to golgata
behind the scenes in the waredrobe alley
priest waiting for his act
roman soldiers on the way to the stage - see in the backround the empty audience hall
View on the stage of the theatre with picture rehearsal: Jesus coming to Jerusalem
Directore Christian Stückl ( in black) giving last orders to Jesus , Petrus and Johannes ( all three on the right )
Jesus and his apostels with the people from Jerusalem ( blue dresses ) waiting to get ready
2009
- In November, the Passion Play performers Frederik Mayet (Jesus) and Eva-Maria Reiser (Mary Magdalene) returned from a media tour through the USA and Canada. The performers were travelling through North America for almost one week having in total ten interviews with different television stations, radio stations and newspapers.
Apart from giving a variety of interviews, the Passion Play performers also visited a so-called Mega-Church in Los Angeles, the Crystal Cathedral. This church was built 30 years ago by Dr. Robert H. Schuller. Each weekend the Crystal Cathedral holds six mess and each time around 3800 people are attending.
This media tour has been an extraordinary experience for both performers.
- Rehearsals for members of the choir and the orchestra already started in October. For the main roles rehearsals start at the end of November 2009. The rest of the participants, for example the romans, crowd etc., start in January 2010
- In September, the main performers, together with the executive team, three journalists and two priests from Oberammergau, participated in a trip to Israel. All together 51 participants left on 6 September from Munich to Tel Aviv early in the morning. After tours in 1990 and 2000 this is the third Passion Play season where this trip was made.
For Christian Stückl, principal director, and Otto Huber, dramatic adviser and deputy director, the trip to Israel had two main purposes. Firstly, the performers were able to look intensively into the history of Jesus, his life and work. Moreover, by visiting the places where Jesus lived, the performers were able to understand the background in a better way and thus enhance their play later on.
The group was accompanied by priest Thomas Frauenlob, who, in 2006, was assigned by the Pope to accompany him to Rome.
The trip included visits to the Sea of Galilee, Bethlehem, Haifa, and Nazareth as well as important places in Jerusalem, as for instance the Mount of Olives, the Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount. The crew also attended mass at St. Anne's Church that, as tradition says, is the birthplace of Jesus' mother Mary. They visited the Church of Dormition, site of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City. Moreover, a visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where it is said Jesus was crucified and entombed, was also part of the Jerusalem tour. Together with Abba Naor, a Latvian Holocaust survivor, the group also visited the Holocaust memorial place Yad Vashem.
After this trip the participating performers returned well prepared to Oberammergau. The organisers are certain that visiting Israel, before the Passion Play rehearsals start in November this year, was an important experience for the performers.
- The - Pest play- will perform this summer in Oberammergaus passionplay theatre. As in good tradition, one year prior to the passionplay, the Pestplay will be performed by the local Oberammergauer people. This play tells the story of Caspar Schissler bringing the plague to Oberammergau that results in the wove to perform the passionplay. Directed as well by Christian Stückl (director of the passionplay 2010.)
2008
- Beginning of 2009: Start of sales of tickets without package
- Ash Wednesday 2009: The "Hair Decree" - from this date on all the men in Oberammergau taking part in the play are requested to let the hair on their heads and faces grow
- April 2009: Choosing the leading actors
2007
- The town voted for a new performance time, the - Nachtspiel -
This means each performance will start at 14 30.PM till 1730 PM
Second part from 20.00PM to 22.30PM.
The Producer Mr. Christian Stückl sees a big improvement for visuality and scenerie especially for the evening part when darkness falls
- A budget of approx. 7 Mio Euros will be spent for new costumes, inventory and scenery.
- There will be 109 performances in 2010 total.
- A five star hotel category will be implemented for the first time with best seats of the house in the arrangement.
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