{"id":22342,"date":"2019-04-06T23:07:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22342"},"modified":"2019-04-06T23:07:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T22:07:55","slug":"the-big-easter-event-and-abingdon-passion-play-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22342","title":{"rendered":"The Big Easter Event and Abingdon Passion Play 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third Abingdon Passion Play was on today in the Abbey Gardens.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040606.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nIn the two hours before the play, from 12 &#8211; 2 pm, there was a chance to look round the community stalls and take part in activities.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040601.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a display by Gideons from Abingdon who give Bibles, and New Testaments to schools, hotels, hospitals, prisons etc.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040602.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Carbon Cutters were there letting us know about some of their campaigns including Plastic Free Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040603.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nHilary Green, Mayor of Abingdon (2003 &#8211; 2004) was there as the Chairperson of the Abingdon Sea Cadets.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040608.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nThe Vineyard Church had a very popular Easter Egg hunt, something they do every year, but this year part of The Big Easter Event..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040610.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nSt Ethelwolds House were there to let us know about their activities, such as Mindfulness Courses, and about Oxfordshire Artweeks which I will do separately some time in the near future.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040611.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nThe local National Trust group had a stall to let us all know about their talks and tours.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040612.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nAt 2 pm, the Passion Play began. It was quite different from previous productions. All the action took place on a stage with a big screen behind. The screen sometimes showed the action magnified, and sometimes showed the choir. There were three very good actors, from LAMPS theatre, playing: Marcus, a centurion, Mary Magdalene, and Simon Peter. Through their eyes, we saw the last days of Jesus who was there, in some sense, but never seen.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040615.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nThe local community came on for other roles and crowd scenes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040620.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nThe script and eight songs were created for the production, and the songs sung by a large choir.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040617.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nNear the end Jesus was crucified,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040618.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nand then rose again and appeared to Mary Magdelene.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040619.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a good audience and the production was well received. LAMPs will now go on tour with the production.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040613.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" \/><br \/>\nI am not sure whether community members like Mike Gould, who played Herod <em>&#8216;Nigel Farage&#8217;<\/em>, will be joining them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third Abingdon Passion Play was on today in the Abbey Gardens. In the two hours before the play, from 12 &#8211; 2 pm, there was a chance to look round the community stalls and take part in activities. There was a display by Gideons from Abingdon who give Bibles, and New Testaments to schools, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}