Passion Play

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I am indeed a partof all those I have met,and must learn who I am. A politician, a cooking contest winner, a troubled clergyman, a much-married socialite, a TV evangelist - what could they have in common? Why do they (and half a million others) travel to Oberammergau, the small German village that has staged a Passion Play every tenth year since 1634? In a four-day bus trip, very different people are drawn together for diverse reasons, similar to the varied group whom Chaucer brought to life in his Canterbury Tales . But these travellers do not tell invented stories to entertain each other; they reveal to us with raw and often painful honesty their own lives and motives. Shortlisted for the 2014 OMEGA Writers CALEB Poetry Prize