Barbican Theatre, London: Describing the writing of the original stage version of The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin has said that the tone for the voice of Mary, the mother of Jesus, "came from Greek heroines such as Electra, Medea or Antigone, and from poets such as Sylvia Plath and Louise Gluck". Now bringing that voice to the stage is Fiona Shaw, who has played the first two of those, and much else in h…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:56AM on May 8, 2014