Her fierce virtuosity transforms Tóibín’s extended monologue into a full-blooded theatrical portrait. If she seems distinctly Irish that is because the play, which had its Broadway opening Monday at the Walter Kerr Theatre, is being performed by the powerhouse Irish actress Fiona Shaw, known to many as Harry Potter’s aunt but awarded an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her stage genius. NEW YORK - Sucking on a cigarette and swigging from a bottle of spirits, the Virgin Mary isn’t looking all that virginal in Colm Tóibín’s defiantly strange, inescapably controversial and at moments intensely gripping dramatic experiment “The Testament of Mary.”
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