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passion play

or Passion Play

noun

  1. a dramatic representation of the passion of Christ, as that given every ten years at the Bavarian village of Oberammergau.


Passion play

noun

  1. a play depicting the Passion of Christ
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of passion play1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Philip Breen, who is responsible for the adaptation, first approached Mullan a number of years ago about an eight-hour passion play he envisaged with a community chorus.

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Early successes include the groundbreaking Passion play in Port Talbot with Michael Sheen in 2011, which lasted three days and attracted 25,000 spectators.

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Trump has made his crimes into a spectacle, with him as the star of a great passion play: the Christ or Mandela figure of modern-day America.

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Forwards Lina Sontag and Christeen Iwuala can be difference makers in their ability to stuff UCLA’s “passion play†stat sheet, which account for plays like charges and deflections that don’t appear in box scores.

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The story loses focus as it detours through a convoluted plot about a passion play, and farcical moments, like a shining crotch, undercut its sinister edges.

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