I'm not crying it's just the existentialism in my eyes. I have always considered Judas to be the worst of the apostles. Even if you don't believe in what this story is about, I believe that the reasonings of these characters and the significance/justification of their presence are enough to move anyone. This is one of those books that makes you feel something. Then after that, it was raining on my face. I basically laughed my ass off for the first half. Many are called to the stand, such as Sigmund Freud, Pontius Pilate and Mother Teresa.
The play is about the trial of Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus and whether or not he should go to Heaven or Hell for it. I'm having a really hard time trying to come up with what to write for this review, because I feel like I just got off of an emotional roller-coaster. This is one of thos This book destroyed me.
a stirring sense of Christian existential pain, which wonders at the paradoxes of faith" (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).more
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. This latest work from the author of Our Lady of 121st Street "shares many of the traits that have made Mr.
Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner. From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate" (Toby Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer) Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate" (Toby Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer)