Mary’s voice is barely heard in the Bible and yet she’s the exalted figure that Catholics are taught to pray to, potential source of more succour even than Christ himself. One religious publication deemed it “the latest piece of Catholic-hating detritus to wash up on our shores from the Emerald Isle” while another called Toibin a sinner “against Scripture and tradition, yes, but also against the more universal code of Motherlove.”īy his account, though, Toibin’s impetus to write in the voice of Mary, mother of Jesus, came from his lived experience of the “vacuum of faith” in early 21st-century Ireland in the wake of revelations about clerical sex abuse, and the lack of relevance that many young people were finding in organized religion. Irish writer Colm Toibin found this out (hardly to his surprise) in 2012 upon publication of his novella The Testament of Mary, the prose version of the monologue play now on at Soulpepper. You can find yourself in hot water if you mess with the Virgin Mary. Until June 18 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. By Colm Toibin, directed by Aaron Willis.
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