PASSION PLAY NEXT YEAR
DATE CHANGED FOR SOOTH ANNIVERSARY t- .MUNICH, Germany, Get. 24. The next .presentation, of the. fa mow Passion Play will be in 1931 instead of 1940, according to a decision of the Oberammcrgau Town Council. . This abandonment of the 10-year-interval custom, the last performance was in 1930, hi being made to commemorate the 300tl» anniversary of the first performance, which falls in. 1934. The play will probably be produced from tho middle of Juno to the middle of September, each performance being preceded bv an hour’sipi'ologuo depicting the history of tho Passion Piay and its origin in a vow made by tho villagers during a period of war and pestilence. Tho Town Council denies the report that a film, will, be made dealing with the history and development of the Passion Play.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 3
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