Munhall Passion play organizers look back on 20 years

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Passion play each Easter season at Anne Ashley United Methodist Church in Munhall has come a long way since it debuted in 1995.

In its early days, performances sometimes involved more suffering than was scripted.

During the play’s second year, for example, the man portraying Jesus broke the toe of the cast member playing the role of the “woman who wipes Jesus’s face” on his way to Calvary hill. In the scene, the crossbeam that Jesus carried was to drop to the ground. Instead, the wooden two-by-four landed on her left foot.