![]() Judas, of course, is already in hell - an eternal damnation that one purgatorial lawyer, Fabiana Aziza Cunningham (Suzanne DiDonna), is determined to free him from. ![]() Addressing the judge, he nearly shrugs: “I’ll take you and whoever.” “I want two souls before I leave here today,” Satan (a riveting Javier Molina) says, stalking through the audience, all vengeance and aggrievement. A showboating, foul-mouthed charmer with a languid smile, he first plays to the crowd, then menaces it. He walks in, and whoosh: instant sympathy for the Devil. In Stephen Adly Guirgis’s “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” directed by Estelle Parsons at La MaMa, Satan’s arrival is what unleashes the magic - theatrical, not black, but potent nonetheless. If they want the Prince of Darkness in the room, they must conjure him. ![]() The biggest name is Satan, though the lawyers can’t simply call him to the stand the way they do the others. The lawyers have quite a list of witnesses for the trial of Judas Iscariot, in the court of purgatory.
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