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Equal Acting Opportunity: All the women in the tiny Bavarian village of Oberammergau won the right Thursday to try out for leading roles in the village’s world-famed Passion Play for the first time in more than 350 years. Traditionally, only single women under 35 were permitted to audition for the main roles in the “Tragedy of the Suffering and Death of Jesus Christ.” Other women could only take supporting roles in the play, which is staged once every decade under a pledge made in 1633.