Mother Teresa (Tamara Heath) takes the witness stand and El Fayoumy asks her if there’s a hell and if so, if Judas is there. The very serious defense attorney Fabiana Aziza Cunningham (Julie Partyka) faces off against the prosecutor El Fayoumy (Milin Chandna), an Egyptian who can’t produce his law license because he left it in his other suit in hell. The setting of the almost three-hour play is a courtroom, where Judge Littlefield (Andrew Pond) presides with the help of his bailiff (Eugene Bracy). The new production by Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, directed by David Belew, is a little uneven but offers some startling and very funny moments. Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2005 play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a deliciously irreverent romp through a parade of history and fiction, including Judas’ imagined childhood. A motley crew of historic figures-Mother Teresa and Sigmund Freud among them-takes the stand to testify as to whether Judas Iscariot was guilty. The scene is Purgatory and it’s a big trial, presided over by a judge who was with Lee when he surrendered at Appomattox.
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