We've got someone trying to get through to Judas with a string of jokes ("Got change for 30 pieces of silver?") Satan testifying that he did not, in fact, make Judas do it Sigmund Freud testifying that Judas had to be insane and a Saint Peter who cares more about fishing. There's intelligence in this play, and humor. The others don't see him, but we do, scribbling thoughts in chalk on the walls around him. (The play asks you to think about what eternal damnation means, too.) Actually, Judas doesn't take part in his trial at all (the case is brought on his behalf by a lawyer) but spends the bulk of the proceedings lost in a catatonic state. It takes place in Purgatory, and is something of a retrial of Judas, who is appealing his sentence of eternal damnation. It asks you to thinkĀabout forgiveness, betrayal, grief, despair, religion, goodness, revolution and responsibility, among other things. Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot seeks to challenge its audience. Also see Sharon's review of Harps and Angels
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