Following high school, he moved to Los Angeles where he studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Sherman is a Kalispell native who graduated from Flathead High School in 2002. It’s going to be very different than what people may expect.” “To me, it’s a relationship play,” said Sherman. Sherman encourages show goers to come with open minds. It raises important questions and allows the audience to evaluate their belief systems. Referred to by Ben Brantley in The New York Times as “a playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life’s losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in lowdown street talk,” Guirgis has perhaps fulfilled this definition to the fullest with the creation of this epic, heartening and tragic story.ĭirector Blake Sherman calls the play a spiritual journey. Like a trial, “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” presents historical facts and allegories, leaving it up to the audience to decide their own verdicts. The play is similar in nature to Pulitzer Prize-winning play “J.B.” as both provide objective views of their themes in many different ways. One of the last plays that Philip Seymour Hoffman directed before his untimely passing, “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” chronicles the efforts of Fabiana Cunningham, a defense attorney in Hope, a suburb of Purgatory, who, armed with a court order signed by God, takes up an appeal to get Judas Iscariot out of Hell after his betrayal of Jesus.įestooned with numerous pieces of theological debate, tongue-and-cheek satire, quotations from church fathers, gospel characters and historical persons otherwise making entrances into the discussion, “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” is a show that demands a lot from the audience but gives it back 10-fold in enjoyment, inspiration and contemplation. Flathead Valley Community College Theatre will open its summer theatre season with the darkly comedic powerhouse of a text, “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” by Stephen Adly Guirgi, on July 25 and 26 and August 1 and 2 at 7 p.m.
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