This independent production is mounted by a cast and crew made up largely of University of Michigan alumni, many of them connected to the performing group Team StarKid, known for its massive YouTube following. Purgatory resident Fabiana Aziza Cunningham, a lapsed Catholic with a chip on her shoulder, wants to defend Judas in a new trial El-Fayoumy, a sycophantic Egyptian Christian, steps up to prosecute. This should tell you something about the off-kilter tone of Guirgis's piece, which takes place in a Purgatory that's adopted a very Americanesque litigation system for eternal fates. It soon becomes clear that her son is Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. It is not in the natural order of things," she says.
Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2005 play opens with a monologue by a mother who's lost her child.
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