The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

About this book

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 the eternal damnation of the Bible s most notorious sinner. This latest work from the author of Our Lady of 121st Street shares many of the traits that have made Mr. 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. Guirgis brings to the play a stirring sense of Christian existential pain which wonders at the paradoxes of faith (Ben Brantley The New York Times).