Sometimes I enjoy listening while also visually reading the KJV on my paperwhite. 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. Sample Audio: The Word of Promise New Testament Audio Bible uses Dramatic Audio Theater to deliver the entire New Testament in a new and exciting way, complete with music and sound effects. Sometimes I enjoy just listening, letting it flow, as I know I will over and over again in years to come. NKJV The Word of Promise New Testament Dramatized. Peck makes it so accessible it's as though I've simply learned a new language just by listening, and the central charm in the way he reads, is that he makes it all so readily understandable. I have enjoyed listening to this in the KJV translation that like so many in my generation I had all but given up on. The reverence, the cadence, the flawless pronunciations and punctuating - I am astonished that he could get through nineteen hours of this, without any instance of stumbling or exhaustion - and positively not one mistake. As the end product of so much visual Hollywood enterprise, he chose to care for his voice. Tóibín is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianityshortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son’s. There is exemplary dedication to the loving perfection of every aspect of craft in evidence here. I suppose the late Gregory Peck was a fine actor, but he must have been much more than that. Seeing the show? Let us know your thoughts.Beautifully read by Gregory Peck. The Testament of Mary, 13 Jan –, Wharf 1 Theatre Mary has been made to represent all that is 'good' about womanhood and motherhood: a symbol of acceptance and submission, of acquiescence, humility and purity. As a woman and as a mother, I rail against that.īut, on a very simple level, it's about the human heart and how it deals with grief and loss. The whole framework for Western liberal democracy has been built around a Christian faith, so whether you are a believer or a non-believer, you can't escape the fact that those stories and that construction of narrative has shaped our psyche as a culture and community. Is this a play with a particular resonance for Christians? Or is its reach and impact bigger? I’m also a great lover of 'character' so it will be wonderful to spend all that time during rehearsal with just one ‘character' – trying to unlock the woman behind the myth.Ĭolm Tóibín has spoken of how important Mary was to him, growing up Catholic. And it's the actor's vocal, physical and emotional dexterity that will transport us – it can be totally mesmerising. I love the technical challenge of that. They need to people the stage with other characters. There is something powerful about witnessing an actor hold the stage alone for the duration of a work. They need to take the audience on a journey through time and space.
The actor is carrying the weight of the whole show and that's a work of physical and emotional and mental endurance.
As an actor or as a director that can be terrifying, but also liberating. The other difference is that there is nowhere to hide. The audience are, in essence, the other character. What's the need to speak? Who are we speaking to and why? The relationship between the performer and the audience becomes paramount in a one woman show. The obvious difference is the need to find a very strong conviction or purpose for speaking. What are you looking forward to about that and does it make a difference? In doing that, we reduce her to an abstraction and confine her forever to a pedestal from which she can't step down.Ī lot of your work for STC has involved directing ensemble productions – Hay Fever, After Dinner, Machinal – but here you’ll be working with just one actor, Alison Whyte.
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Her story has been packaged with a particular agenda from the beginning and over the millennia, its edges have been smoothed over and elevated to mythological proportions. The problem is that Mary is all of those ‘figures', but what she is not and has not been allowed to be is a flesh-and-blood woman – someone who ages, dies, experiences pain, has sex, feels desire, cowardice, regret, rage. Does The Testament of Mary concern the religious, historical, or literary figure of Mary?
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