This fall ARC will be putting on its first full production! In order to achieve this, we need your help to raise funds. To give you a taste of the quality of talent you will be supporting, we are offering this reading of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot featuring over 20 Bay Area actors. 

Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner. This latest work from the author of Our Lady of 121st Street "shares many of the traits that have made Mr. Guirgis a playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in lowdown street talk. [Guirgis brings to the play] a stirring sense of Christian existential pain, which wonders at the paradoxes of faith" (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).

DISCLAIMER: This play contains adult themes, and strong language.