And I think if you had two men in the room with her, they would just be hammering on about some truth about the New Testament. In fact, everybody's mind seeks a way out when what they're looking at is too unbearable, and it's very true to the psychology of that, I think. "And it's psychologically very good about the tiny details that people find - the comforts they find at funerals, or after the death of someone, or in a hospital - those things that people very rarely share because they're frightened that they seem to be unconcentrated. And the details of it included watching a man feeding rabbits to a bird, and watching people cooking food on fires, and watching horses being shod. But it isn't that it's much more that she wants to describe her terror on that day that she saw him being crucified.
"I think what would happen if you did - and it's a very good question - you would have these two men, and it would become a sort of theological battle. On how the play would be different with more characters Which is a very good way of not feeling so lonely." So I do feel a great communion, dare I say, with the audience. And then I tell this particular story, and I follow it as I'm in it, and the audience follow it with me. Most of the audience, whatever their religious denomination, have some sense of Renaissance art and those paintings of crucifixions, so nearly everyone has some access to it. So at least I can talk to her afterward and say, 'How did it go?' But on the stage alone, I suppose what happens is, I feel I'm surfing the story with the audience. I'm directed by a great friend, Deborah Warner, and so she's at the other end of the show. There's much talk of the small rabbits, but we didn't feel we could have a vulture and rabbits at the same time. There's a live vulture, but he's my only cast member. Except for a vulture - there's a vulture in the show, and that's very exciting. Though Shaw is the only human actor in the production, she does share the stage with a live vulture. She just feels he's endangering himself with every big grand gesture that he seems to be associated with. And she really found it hard to believe that he could work miracles. But of course, Colm has taken the story and diverted it slightly she has witnessed it, she didn't like what she witnessed, she was frightened of her son's - the crowds that he began to gather. And she has a story to tell, and she says to them very forcibly that she is a witness. And to proselytize a religion based on the death of this man. "The premise of the play is that these guys want to write the story of what had happened some years earlier and to make it global. It's really, I think, where the connection lies." But he has moved fundamentally it's a story of a mother whose son heads to terrible destruction, and her having to witness the destruction of her son - which is very painful, and in that way it's very like many modern women who may be the mothers of soldiers, or the mothers of revolutionaries. And Colm seems to have thrown a spotlight on her and sort of filled in, in a way, and he's diverted a bit from the Testament of the Apostles.
So they've definitely kept her in a background role. "She's very little in the New Testament, you know she hardly ever speaks, twice or three times. I think anyone who hears it will be astonished by it.On how this role moves Mary from the sidelines to center stage Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tibn's The Testament of Mary presents Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. "She has a way of lingering on words and phrases which is always perfectly natural, but it gradually takes on a real power. Meryl Streep’s performance of Colm Tibn's acclaimed portrait of Mary is hailed by the New York Times Book Review as an ideal audiobook, presenting the three-time Academy Award-winner in yet another great role. It comes from the stops and the half-sighs and that can move into moments of insistent pain and out of that again into memory," Toibin said in a statement Tuesday. And then slowly something sorrowful emerges, it is like an undertone. "What Meryl Streep manages first is a sort of calm force there is a naturalness in the voice, and in the phrasing. 7 (UPI) - Simon & Schuster Audio says its recording of Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary," narrated by Hollywood actress Meryl Streep, will be available in September. Actor Daniel Day Lewis holds his Oscar for best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - " Lincoln" and actress Meryl Streep backstage at the 85th Academy Awards at the Hollywood and Highland Center in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on February 24, 2013.
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