The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Stephen Adly Guirgis's drama puts the red-haired Galilean on trial. In the long, unwieldly script, litigation tries to determine the ineffable: How can someone catatonic with guilt forgive himself? The play's set in Hope, a bad-smelling section of "downtown" Purgatory. Big-name witnesses testify, and get shot down (especially Freud and Mother Teresa), and the imaginative setup, after one or two cross-examinations, becomes predictable. Guirgis tackles the big questions: free will versus destiny; the Problem of Evil. But even lacing them with contemporary slang and four-letter epithets can't convert what's essentially a lecture into courtroom drama. The play's flaws might be less obvious if Triad Productions' staging were more effective. The show sports a sharp look, but most of the actors are obviously "acting" a role. Only rarely, in performances by Merrick McCartha as Pilate, Brendan Cavalier as Thomas, and Charles Peters as Caiaphas, does something genuine come from within.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, January 31, 2010
Hours
| Sundays, 3pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 8pm |