"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"

I am very very intrigued by this play, and everything I've read on it sounds very interesting. Plus, I usually love everything at The Public. However, I'm sorry if this has been posted here or not, but has anyone here seen it? Would you reccomend it? Also, do you know if the Pubic (or just this show) has a student rush policy? Thanks in advance.

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It's been reworked a lot in the last week, but here's what I thought then (scroll down the thread):
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=813899#814192

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Yea, I read that I just wanted to know if they offered student tickets.

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Broadway.com -- also mixed:

"Stephen Adly Guirgis is one of the most electrifying playwrights to hit the stage in 20 years, and he may well have a profane, piercing masterpiece somewhere deep inside The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. All it needs is several workshops and a director willing to dig it out. As it stands now, Guirgis has written the theatrical equivalent of a prize student's dog-eared theology syllabus, with marvelous theories scribbled in every margin and not a single fully fleshed-out thought to be found. It is perhaps the most frustrating play in town."
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=507564

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NY Post -- Mostly Negative:

" PLAYWRIGHTS grappling with serious philosophical issues these days are few and far between, and should be encouraged. But they make it hard when they present their ideas via broad-sketch comedy.

The latest example is "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," an unwieldy satire from the talented playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis ("Our Lady of 121st Street"), directed by the equally talented Philip Seymour Hoffman............

Diverging greatly in style from the playwright's earlier, intensely naturalistic plays, the work is only sporadically effective in its attempt to blend philosophizing with vaudeville-style antics, and director Hoffman's flashy production is unable to lend coherency to the proceedings."

Examining the concept of divine forgiveness through the fate of the title character, the play strains so hard for irreverence that it dilutes its message in a sea of comic shtick. "
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/22235.htm

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