6/17/2023 0 Comments The testament of mary novels jesus“Mary, the mother of Jesus, comes to us through many images she does not come in words…” playwright Colm Toibin, who has written this play as an adaptation of his 2012 novella, writes in a long insert in the program, graced with some of the famous paintings and sculptures depicting her. We who walked past her were like churchgoers, viewing the objects around her like reliquaries and treating her as the iconic image, not a human being. It seemed like a stunt at first, inviting the audience on stage to see the set of “The Testament of Mary” – the live vulture (we’re told his name is Pinhead), the cave underneath the stage with a glass door so that we can see the clay urns, the odd assortment of objects/artifacts, and then Fiona Shaw as the Virgin Mary, motionless as a statute (except she’s silently murmuring), dressed in orange and that particular blue used in Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child - Della Robbia blue - holding calla lilies and an apple, surrounded by votive candles and encased in a big plastic cube.īut then we get back in our seats, and this “pre-show” suddenly makes sense, as the cube lifts and Fiona Shaw takes off her robe and tunic, and stands before us in a plain black frock – the Blessed Mary becoming the woman Mary.
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