Vintage Real Photo Postcard, circa 1950s. Black Hills Passion Play, Spearfish, South Dakota. Published by Black Hills Studios Inc. Divided back, Kodak stampbox, unused. Condition: Excellent condition. Comments: The Black Hills Passion Play was performed every summer for almost seventy years. This production was an American version of the Lunen Passion Play that was brought over in 1932 by immigrants who claimed that it had been produced since 1242. The production was Americanized by seventh-generation Passion Player Josef Meier, who toured it around the country before bringing it to Spearfish in the 1930s; until its last performance on August 31, 2008, the show was produced under the auspices of Meiers daughter Johanna, a world-famous opera singer who had her debut in the play at the age of five weeks.