The Andrews University Passon Play 2007

This year Andrews University hosted its annual passion play. However, due to the cold weather the organizers decided to have it inside instead of the regular campus-wide play. Bummer! There were some scenes which really suffered because of this ... 'the market place.' Due to the fact that no animals were able to be outside in the cold they constructed a mini-mart ... or micro, in the front of the Howard Performing arts center. This was a far cry from the previous years. In my opinion there are only two scenes that people really come to see; that is the Market Place and the Resurrection scene. Initially I thought that having the scenes all inside would really hurt the impact of the play. However, I found that some scenes actually came across better inside. I think that Crusifixion Scene benefited from the lighting effects available in the Johnson Gym and so did the scene with Pilot. These last three scenes in the gym really turned everything around for me. The Andrews University Passion Play was saved here.
This brings up the question whether or not they should always plan to have the play inside and have better effects on the scenes or they can plan to have the play outside and then end up being at the mercy of the Michigan weather. It is such a hard decision because there is much to gain from the actually experience of going back in time, walking through the campus and actually become apart of the show. Yet there special effects which are afforded by having it inside are also very cool!