OBERAMMERGAU
The Oberammergau Passionsspiele has been performed every 10 years since 1634 by the inhabitants of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau (Germany). The earliest continuous survivor of the age of Christian religions vernacular drama, it’s one of the longest running western performing arts traditions and a UNESCO event of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
PROLOGUE or BACK ON THE ROAD
Perhaps because I’m watching an intergenerational creation with over a hundred community members, or perhaps because I’m watching a known innovator who values the traditional and sacred as well as the new, it seems right to write about another director, another ritual, and another village far from the Balinese sun.
Main Stage, New Translation & Cross Cultural Devised Creation from Vancouver to Indonesia
From the Source to the Target
Shinning a light on new translation
Thursday, November 17, 5 p.m.
Salle Jean-Claude-Germain du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui
3900 Saint-Denis, Montreal, H2W 2M2 Canada
Western Theatre Force Collective & Sanggar Paripurna
Oct. – Nov. 2022
What happens when two cultural rivers come together in equal respect?