Testament

A.C.T.
415 Geary St. San Francisco

Originally staged at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2011 -- and retitled for Broadway in 2013 as The Testament of Mary -- Testament is an incisive, lyrical and deeply human work that turns the iconic mother of Jesus Christ into a fully-realized, flesh-and-blood woman who refuses to endorse the Gospels. Colm Tóibín first developed the work as a 2011 monologue, then turned it into a highly-praised novel, and finally brought it to the stage, focusing on an older Mary several years after the Crucifixion, and now sheltered by the men who wrote the Gospels. But torn by grief and self-doubt, she's stubbornly reluctant to endorse their version of events surrounding her son. Don't miss this insightful new perspective about which Variety raved, "you've never seen anything like it." Seana McKenna is a veteran of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.