Since first seeing a passion play as a little kid put on in other worldly crater in the Witchia Mountains in Oklahoma, I have wanted to see the play performed in Oberammergau. It's not an opportunity that comes up everyday to see that sort of spectacle and I didn't want to miss it. I was there once to visit the NATO school there--I wonder if those students take part. For over four hundred years, the residents have performed this grand play to fulfill a pledge to God, promising to do so because the village was spared during the pestillence. I guessed, like most passion plays, they have a limited run and confined to the Eastertide. It turns out, I discovered while plotting vacations and other such get-aways, that the Oberammergauers take this show on, daily, for an entire season, running from May to October. Jesus, for this decade, will be portrayed, by the village psychologist, and Mary will be played in this performance by an airline stewardess.
