The temptations of Sarah Ruhl's "Passion Play" include cameos by Elizabeth I, Adolf Hitler and Ronald Reagan, each briefly swanning through with a stateliness that keeps them well above the fray.And such a fray it is. Ruhl's three-part cycle peeks behind the scenes of centuries-old passion plays to look at the ordinary people playing Jesus, Pilate and the two Marys. Their lives are often in conflict with their religi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:42AM on March 25, 2015