If you’re there early you can explore the stage, set and props while Shaw sits in a candle-lit tableaux of a shrine to the Blessed Virgin, watched over by the most good natured vulture. ![]() What should I look out for?ĭon’t leave it to the last minute to head into the auditorium. ![]() With Toíbín’s words in her mouth, at times she sounds like a friend’s mum chatting about one of your old pals, referring to the disciples with cheery half-disapproval as misfits, recalling miracles as anecdotes and wondering confusedly at the spin given by his followers to the actions of Jesus that she sees simply as those of her son. Olivier Award-winning Irish actress Fiona Shaw holds the stage singlehandedly as Mary, revealing every inch of maternal instinct in the mother of Christ. The result is a mother’s response to the life of the world’s most famous son, rich with emotion and intrigue. ![]() Mary, mother of Jesus, speaks relatively few words in The Gospels, so author Colm Toíbín has given her a voice, first in a Man Booker Prize nominated novel and now in his own stage adaptation.
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