Passion Play

<p><em>I am indeed a part<br />of all those I have met<br />and must learn who I am.</em></p><p>A politician a cooking contest winner a troubled clergyman a much-married socialite a TV evangelist - what could they have in common? Why do they (and half a million others) travel to Oberammergau the small German village that has staged a Passion Play every tenth year since 1634?</p><p>In a four-day bus trip very different people are drawn together for diverse reasons similar to the varied group whom Chaucer brought to life in his <em>Canterbury Tales</em>. But these travellers do not tell invented stories to entertain each other; they reveal to us with raw and often painful honesty their own lives and motives.</p><p>Shortlisted for the 2014 OMEGA Writers CALEB Poetry Prize</p>