The testament of mary broadway lighting3/14/2024 ![]() The author, Colm ToÃbÃn, has imagined Mary later in life, after Christ's death a woman alone, she isn't at all happy to be visited by his followers. If her rages can evoke the terrors of the earth, even in moments of quiet introspection, she can rattle your nerves. Perhaps not, but as played by Shaw, Mary is a woman of Medea-like furies. And yet a disturbing thought occurs: With that simple, yet distinct, gesture, is she attempting - either consciously or unconsciously - to connect these two towering female figures of antiquity? ![]() (Whether the children she had murdered were on stage, I mercifully no longer recall the final image was disturbing enough.) In The Testament of Mary, Shaw plays Mary, the mother of Jesus, presumably a more benign parent figure. At the end of her 2002 Medea, she sat next to a pool, giggling and flicking drops of water at her grieving husband, Jason. If you caught her last Broadway way, the gesture is enough to make your blood run cold. The Testament of Mary begins with Fiona Shaw, by a pool, flicking bits of water with her fingers and smiling with childlike satisfaction. ![]() Theatre in Review: The Testament of Mary (Walter Kerr Theatre)
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