Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play to Play Irondale Center Beginning April 27

Epic Theatre Ensemble has announced the dates for the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, which will be presented in a site-specific performance at the Irondale Center, a converted Sunday School inside the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church (85 South Oxford Street) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Mark Wing-Davey will direct the production, which will play April 27-May 30, with an opening on May 12. Casting will be announced at a later date.

Inspired by the historic festivals where everyday citizens came together to elevate their communities by staging the life and death of Christ, Passion Play transports audiences first to 16th century England, where Queen Elizabeth threatens to shut down a small town’s production; then to Nazi Germany, where Adolf Hitler’s arrival at the famous Oberammergau Passion Play influences the lives of its cast and finally to Spearfish, South Dakota in 1984, as a local production becomes a campaign stop for a famous actor-turned-President running for re-election.

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