Review: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by The Royal Pretenders

by Michael Meigs
Published on August 31, 2010

Playwright Steven Adly Guirgis takes a long time to set up the courtroom drama, a tiresomely predictable dramatic device. As in a slogging heavyweight title fight, some of the rounds are engaging and entertaining while others are lost time.

. . . or, perhaps, The Road to Salvation as imagined by Bart Simpson.   The setting is a  clichéd and unfunny take on the Day of Judgment, the plot's a mess, the characters are mostly caricatures, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot was LONG -- close to three hours, including one intermission.    A brilliant and moving play was hiding inside this mess, one that came clear in the concluding scenes, after the grunge and cuteness had …

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