EditorialFrederik Mayet as Jesus on the cross in the Passion Play, a spectacle performed every 10 years by hundreds of townspeople in Oberammergau, Germany, Aug. 12, 2022. (Roderick Aichinger/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left, Frederik Mayet, who was supposed to play Jesus; Christian Stückl, who has directed the Passion Play for three decades; and Eva Reiser, who was to play Mary, on the unfinished stage of the Passion Play in Oberammaergau, Germany, March 27, 2020. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)