The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

presented by The Aluminous Collective

Thursdays-Sundays, 8:00PM

playing through September 21

The Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, Oakland

see website for ticket information

http://www.aluminous.org/whats-on

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/780550

http://www.theflightdeck.org

“The Aluminous Collective presents The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Michael French

A riotous courtroom drama set in a timeless netherworld 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.

Judas Iscariot feels alone. Vilified by all Christians for the last 2000 years for his betrayal of Jesus Christ to the Roman authorities for thirty pieces of silver. For that act and for his subsequent suicide, he has allegedly been condemned to hell for all eternity. It is a story with which we are all familiar. Perhaps the time has come for a reprieve? Many others had their sins washed away by Jesus: many others were given the opportunity to start again. And are there not other figures that should bear their share of the blame? And where better a venue for such a case to be tried than in a courtroom delicately poised between heaven and hell: as the attorney for Judas’ defense states, ‘This is Purgatory, I’ve got all day.’”