A real tour de force by Fiona Shaw in this solo performance of Mary remembering Jesus's life - particularly the resurrection of Lazarus and the Wedding at Cana and ending up with the crucifixition - told in harrowing detail. The audience seemed quite spellbound for the entire 80 minutes which starts with Shaw in a glass case which is lifted for her to take charge of a live vulture. The bird imagery is told as if part of a dream later when she recounts how she took her mind of the crucifixion by watching a man feed live rabbits to a caged bird that half-killed them.
The ending is controversial but provocative - the resurrection of Christ as a shared dream by Mary - as is the depiction of the disciples as a bunch of misfits.
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