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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Set in a time-bending, darkly comic world between heaven and hell, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT reexamines the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner.

"THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT 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 talkMr. Guirgis is a zealous and empathic researcher, and he presents dilemmas of ancient Galilee in terms winningly accessible to the twenty-first century" -NY Times.

"Stephen Adly Guirgis has written a real jaw-dropperexpressionistic fantasyraw language and flamboyantly street-savvy charactershis imagination is dazzling and his command of language downright thrilling." -Variety.

"one of the most passionate and powerful young playwrights to have come down the theatrical runwaya must for anyone interested in the work of thoughtful and original playwrights." -CurtainUp.

"An extraordinary playnot since Angels in America have I seen a play so unafraid to acknowledge the power of the spirit" -The Guardian (UK).