Esparreguera Passion Play
esparreguera passion play catalan passió desparreguera performance passion play esparreguera catalonia spain play three hundred actor live music performed twelve performance staged every sunday march may townspeople esparreguera town northwest barcelona get involved every year carry festival performance take place teatre de la passió large theater venue opened designed specifically passion play performance along olesa passion one important passion play catalonia counterreformation initiated catholic church council trent – response protestant reformation resulted widespread performance sacred drama performed street union guild rural community starting seventeenth century numerous different text proliferated version less following traditional line ecclesiastical authority managed bring together cleanedup unified version text attributed fray antoni de san jerónimo published vic reality vic script essentially compiled different version extant time version performed esparreguera earliest performance esparreguera passion play took place early seventeenth century performed outside street natural setting represent event christ passion street performance continued middle nineteenth century moved indoors performance put variety public private venue whole production redesigned classical theatrical play two part first part performed morning depicting three year jesus public life second part afternoon showing passion death resurrection world war townspeople began consider replacing earlier text began using version local poet ramon torruella wrote version performed today ever since premiere divided traditional two part consists scene four act schedule variation century esparreguera passion performed every sunday holiday saturday beginning lent first week may except palm sunday good friday easter monday performance theatrical celebration passion death resurrection christ largescale theatrical show performed high level technical production quality also staging secular tradition town intense experience many actor extra take part amateur counting backstage others help organization production amount around thousand people many case participation family tradition passed generation many actor began participating extra ended important role others may never participated stage nevertheless involved festival supporting role scenery backstage operation stunt lighting support role author tomàs roig llop writes autobiography visiting esparreguera conference met librarian town aurelia sabanés de balaguér mentioned note passion play roig knew editor thought might interested book esparreguera passion play suggested turn note book coming book following year written collaboration roig catalonia catholicism spain holy week spain holy week procession oral literature sabanés de balagué aurèlia roigr llop tomàs termes pau la passió desparreguera esparreguera passion play biblioteca folklòrica barcino catalan barcelona editorial barcino oclc retrieved may valentí zurriaga mireia gavà ajuntament museu de gavà gavà recull gràfic gavà image gallery catalan el papiol editorial efadós isbn oclc retrieved may