The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a play by American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis first staged Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on March 2, 2005 directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" tells the story of a court case over the ultimate fate of Judas Iscariot. The play uses flashbacks to an imagined childhood, and lawyers who call for the testimonies of such witnesses as Mother Teresa, Caiaphas, Saint Monica, Sigmund Freud, and Satan. The original production premiered Off-Broadway in a Labyrinth Theatre Company production at the Public Theatre
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