ABSTRACT
At Easter 2011, I re-enacted Christ’s Passion. The performance ran continuously for 72 hours, and drew in thousands of people. It had the story of the Passion as the blueprint (using Mark’s Gospel as the reference, with John Carroll’s book The Existential Jesus an inspiration), but was set in a contemporary context and with the specific story of my hometown–Port Talbot–as its focus. This created a sort of double story, with the story/myth of the town being the surface or conscious version and the story/ritual of the events leading up to and around the crucifixion of Jesus being the deep currents/unconscious version.
