Easter 2022
Find a free Passion Play near you this Easter. After two years of canceled performances, the Easter story will now…
Directing Passion Plays in Prison
The Easter story has been taken into prisons around the world and Passion Plays have a unique way of capturing…
Funding for 2021
Grants for plays in 2021 are now available! Our trustees are available to talk to you about your Passion Play…
Passion Plays and Biblical Literacy
Passion Plays help address the lack of biblical literacy in the UK. According to a study undertaken by YouGov on…
What is a Passion Play?
Passion Plays are free performances of the Easter story. ‘The greatest story ever told’ is brought to life in large,…
History of Passion Plays
Easter plays and religious drama have a long and popular history in the UK. Today’s Passion Plays are descendants of…
Cast the First Stone: the Passion in Prison
Did you know one of our trustees was director for the Passion Play in Louisiana State Penitentiary? It was a…
Did Shakespeare watch a Passion Play?
In Julius Caesar, Mark Antony’s speech when he is left alone with the dead body of Caesar is full of…
Seventeenth Century Passion Play
Even though public performances of Mystery Plays and Passion Plays had been suppressed during the Reformation, there are still references…
Fourteenth Passion Play
Did you know that the earliest reference to a performance of a Passion Play goes back to a fourteenth-century sermon?…