Award-winning actress Fiona Shaw, writer Colm Tóibín, and director Deborah Warner discuss the process of bringing The Testament of Mary, Tóibín’s adaptation of his 2012 novella, to the Broadway stage. Mary tells her own story in the inventive and controversial new work, and thus, writes a new testament of Christ.
Moderated by Jeremy McCarter.
Free admission for New School students.
Suggested donation of $10 at the door
Co-sponsored by Glucksman Ireland House, NYU.
Colm Tóibín is the author of many bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including The Master (which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and Brooklyn, the short-story collection Mothers and Sons, and, most recently, both the novel and play The Testament of Mary (which will open on Broadway later this spring, starring Fiona Shaw). Julie Orringer is the author of the short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater, which won the Northern California Book Award and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a “Best Book” by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2011, she published her “expertly crafted” and “emotionally haunting” first novel, The Invisible Bridge. Together, they will discuss the topic of “Family Novels" with Deborah Cohen, Professor of History at Northwestern and author of the forthcoming historical study Family Secrets.
Giller Prize winner Elizabeth Hay hosts a conversation with Ireland’s Colm Tóibín , the award-winning author of The Master , winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Le prix du meilleur livre étranger, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and, Brooklyn , winner of the Costa Novel Award.
