{"id":83718,"date":"2020-03-20T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=83718"},"modified":"2020-03-20T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T23:51:11","slug":"oberammergau-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2020\/03\/oberammergau-2022.html","title":{"rendered":"Oberammergau 2022!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Oberammergau<\/a>
The Passion Play stage in 2010 (Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I\u2019m deeply saddened to say that the tour that I was scheduled to lead to the Passionsspiele Oberammergau, the Wartburg, Mauthausen, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Berlin, and so forth, has been canceled.<\/p>\n

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Why? \u00a0Because the Oberammergau Passion Play itself<\/em> has been canceled. \u00a0As Shakespeare\u2019s Friar Lawrence says to Juliet,<\/p>\n

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Lady, come from that nest<\/span><\/div>\n
Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep.<\/span><\/div>\n
A greater power than we can contradict<\/span><\/div>\n
Hath thwarted our intents.<\/span><\/div>\n
(Romeo and Juliet<\/em> V.iii.163-166)<\/span><\/div>\n
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To be more precise, the Passion Play has been postponed<\/em>. \u00a0The management of the production and attendant matters in Oberammergau have prudently and conservatively delayed it until 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In that light, the Cruise Lady company \u2014 Cruise Lady: Latter-day Adventures<\/a> \u2014 are already planning to reschedule their own tours for 2022, as well, and I have already committed, God willing and my encroaching senility and the coronavirus permitting, to accompany one of those tours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I can\u2019t deny that I\u2019m deeply disappointed. \u00a0I was really looking forward to this one. \u00a0For one thing, I love that part of the world, the area of the Bavarian, Austrian, and Swiss Alps. \u00a0I served my mission in German-speaking Switzerland, the very place in which I had dreamed of serving since my first visit to it two years before. \u00a0This iteration of the play would have been, and I hope that it still will be, my fourth season of attendance at Oberammergau. \u00a0But I\u2019m also not surprised, under the circumstances. \u00a0I was expecting<\/em> the cancellation.<\/p>\n

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The Cruise Lady company has already communicated with those who were registered for the tour, and \u2014 they can correct me if I\u2019m wrong \u2014 those folks are already registered for the 2022 trip, if they so desire. \u00a0Some, I\u2019m sure, will opt out for various reasons. \u00a0So I\u2019m writing here to say that those who might be interested in participating in that 2022 tour but who were not enrolled in the group for this summer might want to contact Cruise Lady and at least put their names on the list for 2022. \u00a0(This summer\u2019s trip was sold out.)<\/p>\n

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There is no little irony in the cancellation of the Oberammergau Passion Play because of a contagion. \u00a0After all, as I explained in an 8 June 2018 column for the Deseret News<\/em>, regular performance of the play began back in 1634 as the result of a religious vow undertaken by residents of the village of Oberammergau in the face of the bubonic plague:<\/p>\n

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\u201cFour centuries of Christian devotion in a small Bavarian town\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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They survived. \u00a0So will we, and so will the Passionspiele.<\/p>\n

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