The resurrection of Jesus Christ will take place tonight south of the Campanile, with a play by the Iowa State chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

In a short play titled “Crosstalk,” members of FCA will reenact the resurrection of Christ and the Easter story.

The play will begin with a skit between FCA members Malachi Wurpts, a graduate student in computer science, and Rob Reed, a junior in civil engineering. Wurpts will play a Christian trying to show Reed, a “backslider” or person struggling with the idea of Christianity, some advantages to accepting Jesus Christ.

FCA member Mike VanZee, a junior in agricultural engineering, said the group had been wanting to put on a play for some time.

“We are discussing the Apostle’s Creed this semester in FCA and have been wanting to do a large drama, so we put the idea into our schedule at the beginning of the year,” VanZee said.

“We decided we wanted to do something special for the resurrection and then Malachi introduced us to the play.”

Wurpts produced the play with kids at the camp where he worked last summer, VanZee said.

The key parts of Jesus and Pontius Pilate will be played by James Seidel, a junior in meteorology, and Clint Martin, a sophomore in electrical engineering, respectively.

There will also be four guards in the play, including VanZee, who will be leading Christ to the crucifixion.

“I help nail him to the cross,” VanZee said.

Exactly how they are going to nail someone to a cross has been puzzling, he said. However, don’t worry, VanZee said no blood will be shed.

“One of the other guards and I make motions and actually have Clint [Martin] making noise, so while it is all imagination, it does get the point across,” VanZee said.

VanZee said FCA hopes to promote God and Christianity through the performance.

“We’re just really asking God to work amongst us and at the end of the play we’re going to allow people the chance to make a new commitment or first time commitment to Christianity.”

Throughout the play, leaders of FCA will be around the perimeter of the audience to answer people’s questions about the performance, VanZee said.

FCA will meet at 8:30 p.m. in the Oak Room at the Memorial Union prior to the play Thursday.

“We will be meeting in the Oak Room to sing some songs prior to heading over to the Campanile and want to encourage people to come out for that as well as the play,” VanZee said.

From the Oak Room, members of FCA, and anyone else who wishes to join them, can go to the area south of the Campanile shortly before 9 p.m. VanZee said the play will run approximately 25 minutes.