The Passion ? review

Port Talbot, WalesIn the beginning was the Word. On the street: "Were you in the town centre when John the Baptist tried to get on the escalator?" At the end, there was an image. By the sea: a man on a crucifix, with waves at his feet and in the distance across the bay the steelworks of south Wales.Conflating the everyday and the epic, the ordinary and the elevated, the Port Talbot Passion was one of the outstanding theatrical events not only of this year, but of the decade. Not since the Sultan's Elephant in London in 2006 has a piece of theatre so infiltrated the life of a place and made it look so differently at itself. Michael Sheen, who starred alongside some professional actors and a large cast of residents, had the idea of revisiting the Passion plays he saw as a child in his home

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