passion play

If Trump’s advisors are his apostles in selling his anti-immigrant crusade, the Pontius Pilate in this Passion play is El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, adored by the American right as the ne plus ultra of modern-day Latin American strongmen.

Philip Breen, who is responsible for the adaptation, first approached Mullan a number of years ago about an eight-hour passion play he envisaged with a community chorus.

Early successes include the groundbreaking Passion play in Port Talbot with Michael Sheen in 2011, which lasted three days and attracted 25,000 spectators.

Trump has made his crimes into a spectacle, with him as the star of a great passion play: the Christ or Mandela figure of modern-day America.

Forwards Lina Sontag and Christeen Iwuala can be difference makers in their ability to stuff UCLA’s “passion play” stat sheet, which account for plays like charges and deflections that don’t appear in box scores.