This Bavarian Village Has Performed The Passion Play Once Every Decade Since 1633 In Thanks For Being Spared From A Pandemic

But this year, another plague broke the record. “This year’s Passion Play, scheduled to premiere in May and run through the summer, had to be abandoned because of the coronavirus. An epic production, cast with local residents as actors, the play would have brought half a million visitors to the village and 2,500 people, or half of Oberammergau, onto the world’s biggest open air stage.” – The New York Times