Iconoclastic Play Directed at the Mother of God

Edit: when the reviewer here says “iconoclastic” he thinks of it as being something positive.   This is the real war on the woman.  It attempts to portray Mary as a menopausal East Coast liberal.  These sorts of events have been closed down and disrupted in Europe by courageous youth.  Why not in New Jersey?

It was not quite the Blessed Mother I knew. But actress Fiona Shaw’s Mary was blessed in all her humanness on display at the Walter Kerr Theatre where she flawlessly embodied the mother of Jesus in the iconoclastic “The Testament of Mary,” by Irish playwright and author Colm Toibin. 

Her Mary was raw and naked in many ways. And that could explain the protests mounted by the American Society of Tradition, Family and Property on opening night. 

While some sang “Ave Maria,” others held signs that read, “It’s fiction, not truth, but 100 percent blasphemy.” The producers responded in a Playbill online statement, “The Testament of Mary explores in a very serious way, something that matters to all of us. It is neither anti-Mary nor anti-Christianity but a portrait of a very human woman a mother who is trying to make sense of and come to terms with the tragic death of her son.”

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