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Judas Iscariot...Heaven or Hell...You Have to Make a Choice
The Gift Theatre Company
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Kevin Christopher Fox
The Jeff Recommended production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot moves from The Gift Theatre to the Victory Gardens Greenhouse Mainstage in June.
In Stephen Adly Guirgis’ provocative, wild and brilliant play on Catholicism, Jesus’ infamous betrayer stands trial in Hope, a small section of Purgatory, where Satan, Mother Teresa and Sigmund Freud are among the many characters who take the stand.
This production welcomes Kevin Christopher Fox back to The Gift who takes the director’s chair this time around after appearing onstage in last season’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane. In addition, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is also an onstage reunion for artistic director Michael Patrick Thornton (“Judas”) with The Gift ensemble, with whom he has not appeared onstage since The Gift’s inaugural production of Boys’ Life six years ago. The role of Jesus is played by Syler Thomas, Youth Ministries Pastor for Christ Church Lake Forest.
The production features Gift ensemble members Daniel J. Ahlfeld (Butch Honeywell) John Kelly Connolly (Matthias, St. Peter), Jeff Citation winner Paul D’Addario (Satan), Brendan Donaldson (Jesus), Benjamin Montague (El-Fayoumy), and Jeff Award winner Michael Patrick Thornton (Judas Iscariot). The production also features Emanueal Buckley (Pilate, Uncle Pino, St. Matthew), Mark Czoske (Judge Littlefield, Caiaphas the Elder), Liza Fernandez (St. Monica), Ed Flynn (Sigmund Freud, St. Thomas) Evan Lee (Bailiff, Simon the Zealot), Kathleen Logelin (Fabiana Cunningham), Neil McNamara (Butch Honeywell), Lindsey Pearlman (Gloria, Mother Teresa), Laura Shatkus (Mary Magdalene, Sr. Glenna, Loretta), Deborah Smith (Henrietta Iscariot), and Syler Thomas (Jesus).
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