I Am Herod

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Publication Year:
2019

ISBN-13: 9781773101439

<p><b>Shortlisted, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction</b></p><p>On a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of <i>The Canadian Badlands Passion Play</i>, North America&#39;s largest production of its kind and one of the main tourist attractions in Alberta. By the time closing night is over, Kemick has a story to tell. From the controversial choice of casting to the bizarre life in rehearsal, this glorious behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada&#39;s strangest theatrical spectacles also confronts the role of religion in contemporary life and the void left by its absence for non-believers.</p><p>In the tradition of tragic luminaries such as David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Goldstein, and David Sedaris, <i>I Am Herod</i> gives its congregation of readers unparalleled access to the players of the Passion: there&#39;s Judas, who wears a leather jacket even when it&#39;s 30?C; the Chief Sadducee, who is ostracized for his fanaticism; Pilate, the only actor who swears; the Holy Spirit, who is breaking ground as the role&#39;s first female actor; and the understudy Christ, the previous year&#39;s real-deal Christ who was demoted to backup and now performs illicit one-man shows backstage.</p>