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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