Time advances slowly in this Alpine village, measured in decade-long spans between performances of Oberammergau's nearly 400-year-old enactment of the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Changes to the ritual, started in 1633 as a promise to God by the village's Roman Catholic populace in exchange for calling off the plague, are always hotly debated.
In this year's edition, director Christian Stueckl _ who normally directs at Munich's Volkstheater _ has altered the script, staging and lighting of his third Oberammergau Passion Play to make it a highly political and polished retelling of Jesus' final days.
In 2000, he worked with Jewish …
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