Overview
Within the next hour, our operatives will isolate, engage and capture or
kill the notorious leader of the most extreme, dangerous and contagious
ideology to emerge in the modern era, whose terror activities represent
the gravest threat to our interests across the region and the wider
world. I refer, of course, to the radical preacher and populist
demagogue Y'shua Bar-Yessuf - the man known, by way of shorthand to our
operatives, as "Jesus". Satan, the narrator of Justin Butcher's one-man
play who is looking out for our best interests, is on a mission to
harness the ways of the dangerous extremist preacher Jesus. Jesus'
radical teachings and popularity have the potential to wreak havoc in
the Middle East. This is exactly the sort of man the government warn us
of, again and again. This clever and evocative passion play from the
devil's perspective considers Jesus' relevance to contemporary issues,
and retells the story of Christ's life from the perspective of the
enemy. The Devil's Passion received its world premiere in June 2015 at
St James's, Piccadilly, and was revived and toured in 2016.