THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, Yale School of Drama, 2018.

THE

LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

Thursday, March 22 at 4PM Friday, March 23 at 3:30PM and 8PM Saturday, March 24 at 4PM The Studio, 217 Park Street

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MARCH 22–24, 2018 YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean

PRESENTS

THE LAST

DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

BY STEPHEN

ADLY GUIRGIS DIRECTED BY JOSÉ ZAYAS

CREATIVE TEAM

CAST in alphabetical order

Production Dramaturgs MADELINE CHARNE EVAN HILL

Gloria, Mother Teresa JULIANA AIDEN

Stage Manager FABIOLA FELICIANO-BATISTA

Satan ABUBAKR ALI Sigmund Freud, Saint Thomas, Soldier 1 BRANDON E. BURTON Fabiana Aziza Cunningham DANIELLE CHAVES Matthias of Galilee, Saint Peter, Soldier 2 GREGORY SAINT GEORGES Jesus of Nazareth MANU NEFTA HEYWOT KUMASI Yusef El-Fayoumy JAKE RYAN LOZANO Loretta, Mary Magdalene, Sister Glenna DOIREANN MAC MAHON Pontius Pilate, Uncle Pino CURT MORLAYE Henrietta Iscariot ANULA NAVLEKAR Judge, Caiaphas the Elder, Saint Matthew HUDSON OZNOWICZ Saint Monica, Soldier 3 ILIA ISORELÝS PAULINO Judas Iscariot JOHN EVANS REESE Bailiff, Simon the Zealot DARIO LADANI SANCHEZ Butch Honeywell DEVIN WHITE

MARCH 22–24, 2018 YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean

PRESENTS

THE LAST

DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

BY STEPHEN

ADLY GUIRGIS DIRECTED BY JOSÉ ZAYAS

CREATIVE TEAM

CAST

PRODUCTION STAFF

ADMINISTRATION

Associate Production Manager PHILLIP ALEXANDER WORTHINGTON

Associate Managing Director MELISSA ROSE

in alphabetical order

Production Dramaturgs MADELINE CHARNE EVAN HILL

Gloria, Mother Teresa JULIANA AIDEN

Stage Manager FABIOLA FELICIANO-BATISTA

Satan ABUBAKR ALI Sigmund Freud, Saint Thomas, Soldier 1 BRANDON E. BURTON Fabiana Aziza Cunningham DANIELLE CHAVES Matthias of Galilee, Saint Peter, Soldier 2 GREGORY SAINT GEORGES Jesus of Nazareth MANU NEFTA HEYWOT KUMASI Yusef El-Fayoumy JAKE RYAN LOZANO Loretta, Mary Magdalene, Sister Glenna DOIREANN MAC MAHON Pontius Pilate, Uncle Pino CURT MORLAYE Henrietta Iscariot ANULA NAVLEKAR Judge, Caiaphas the Elder, Saint Matthew HUDSON OZNOWICZ Saint Monica, Soldier 3 ILIA ISORELÝS PAULINO Judas Iscariot JOHN EVANS REESE Bailiff, Simon the Zealot DARIO LADANI SANCHEZ Butch Honeywell DEVIN WHITE

Supervisor Stage Manager CAITLIN O'ROURKE Crew ERIN KELLER TIFFANY WEI HSUAN WANG SARAH WOODHAM

Assistant Managing Director ARMANDO HUIPE Management Assistant MARKIE GRAY House Manager AL HEARTLEY Yale School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.

SPECIAL THANKS TK

THERE WILL BE ONE TEN-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

RECOGNIZING THE REVILED Scholar Albert Schweitzer, who studied the historical Jesus, once remarked that whenever a biographer looks for Jesus’s face in the deep, dark well of history, she inevitably finds only her own reflection staring back.

But what about when we look for Judas’s face? What do we find then?

Betrayer of man. Betrayer of God. Villain.

But do we ever see ourselves?

In The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Stephen Adley Guirgis asks us to do just that: to look for Judas deep in that well and to make peace with the face we see staring back at us, to embrace that reflection and to try to find a way out of that well. What if, upon crawling out, we were to discover that belief in an unconditional love requires not the glorification of the godly, but identification with the reviled?

What if we playfully speculated with Jorge Luis Borges that even God identifies himself when peering closely at Judas?

"God made Himself totally a man but a man to the point of infamy, a man to the point of reprobation and the abyss. To save us, He could have chosen *any* of the destinies which make up the complex web of history; He could have been Alexander or Pythagoras or Rurik or Jesus; He chose the vilest destiny of all: He was Judas."

—J.L. BORGES, THREE VERSIONS OF JUDAS

—MADELINE CHARNE AND EVAN HILL, PRODUCTION DRAMATURGS

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