Though it happened entirely by accident, it is fitting enough that our refresher rehearsal for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is taking place in a church on Ash Wednesday. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play is a kind of a modern Biblical seriocomic courtroom drama in which Guirgis imagines a defense attorney appealing Judas’s sentence of eternal damnation at the […]
Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – Ben Matlock
Catch up with Ben Matlock – Simon the Zealot Ben has been seen on stage with the Hyde Park Community Players before in Dangerous Liasons, Musical of Musicals, The Musical!, and the Friday Staged Reading Series. Hi Ben, it’s great to see you again. What have you been up to? What made you want to […]
Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – James Allen
Catch up with James Allen – Pontius Pilate James has previously appeared with HPCP as Caliban in The Tempest, and was in Clybourne Park, and The Lady is Not For Burning. Hi James, it’s been a while! It’s good to see you. What have you been up to? Since last time I did something with […]
Director’s Note from Leslie Halverson – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
I was raised going to church. I used to love hearing my grandfather, a Presbyterian minister, preach about the connections between Christianity and social justice. It did so much to shape the way I move through the world and interact with those around me. That said, while those memories are very precious to me, and […]
Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – Kim Shaw
Catch up with Kim Shaw – St. Monica Kim has appeared in several of HPCP’s annual Halloween show, An Evening of Horror and Suspense, as well as in An Ideal Husband and several staged readings, most recently as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. It’s so great to see you! It’s been a […]
Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – Beth Johnson
Meet Beth Johnson – Fabiana Aziza Cunningham What made you want to audition for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot? My acting coach suggested that I try theater. I do on-camera stuff, commercials and industrial work. But my teacher suggested that I should start trying out for things on stage, probably as a volunteer. Then […]