Passion Play

Last night at Time Out Veronica Welham gave a talk and presentation of the Passion Play at Oberammergau on the German/Bavarian Border, she attended in September i found it very interesting, i would dearly love to attend.
Passion Play Oberammergau

A play of life and death, promised in a moment of mortal threat - so began the history of the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1633. In the middle of the Thirty Years War, after months of suffering and death from the plague, the Oberammergauers swore an oath that they would perform the "Play of the Suffering, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ" every ten years. At Pentecost 1634, they fulfilled their pledge for the first time on a stage they put up in the cemetery above the fresh graves of the plague victims. In the year 2010, the Community of Oberammergau will perform the Passion Play, they have preserved throughout the centuries with singular continuity, for the 41th time.
http://www.passionplay-oberammergau.com/

During the meeting i got talking to Janet Brown who told me there is a Passion Play every Good Friday in Leicester my home town, she had attended and it was brilliant, her son was in it last year and hopes to be in next year.

Passion Play -Leicester

Christ in the Centre is a major open-air recreation of the Easter story and has been held in the centre of Leicester every Good Friday since 2003.
It regularly attracts audiences approaching 10,000 people, making it the largest such event in the country, and a major piece of Christian outreach.
Its success has attracted the attention of many other cities, and spawned spin-off events in many locations across the country.
The first Leicester event was in 2003, organised through Churches Together in Leicester City Centre (CTLCC), a group of City Churches, together with the Leicester Market Traders, and included a re-enactment of the arrest, trial, mocking and crucifixion of Jesus by SWORD , the Christian drama company based at St. Wilfrid’s Church in Kibworth.
It took place in Leicester City outside the Town Hall, with Jesus dragging a cross along Gallowtree Gate before finally ending at the Market Place for the crucifixion scene.  The drama was followed by a time of worship and a short address by the Bishop of Leicester.  That first event attracted an audience of over 3,000.
The event now regularly attracts an audience approaching 10,000 people, and a significant infrastructure in terms of staging and amplification.

http://citc.dioceseofleicester.com/