Tóibín’s tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed. Tony Award nominee and four-time Olivier Award-winning actress Fiona Shaw stars in The Testament of Mary, the Broadway world-premiere stage adaptation of Colm Tóibíns recent novella, which.
This woman whom we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone. Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the cross until her son died-she fled, to save herself), and her judgment of others is equally harsh. Shaw will play the Virgin Mary, struggling to come to grips with. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God nor that his death was “worth it” nor that the “group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye,” were holy disciples. The Testament of Mary- Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph- A 2013 Tony Award nominee for Best Play, this incisive, intelligent and profoundly challenging work recounts in riveting detail Marys narrative of the last days in the life of her son, Jesus. The acclaimed actress Fiona Shaw and her longtime collaborator, the director Deborah Warner, will return to Broadway this spring for the first time since their Medea in 2002 with another play about an emotionally vivid and vulnerable woman: The Testament of Mary. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel, who are her keepers.
In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son’s crucifixion. “Tóibín is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work” ( The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity-shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. 2014 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year, Literary Fiction, and Solo Narration-Female! Other articles where Brooklyn is discussed: Colm Tibn: In 2009 he released Brooklyn, a best seller that was adapted into a critically acclaimed film (2015) with a screenplay by Nick Hornby. Original music and sound design by Mel Mercier.