Gunhild in John Gabriel Borkman (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and BAM) Galatica in Scenes from an Execution (NT) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Old Vic Tunnels). de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Mephisto, Hyde Park, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew, New Inn (Royal Shakespeare Company) title role in Mary Stuart (Greenwich Theatre) Machinal (NT, Best Actress, Evening Standard and Olivier Awards) Millamant in The Way of the World (NT) title role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (NT) Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost (Bolton Octagon) Mary Shelley in Bloody Poetry (Foco Novo) Rosalind in As You Like It (Old Vic Theatre, Olivier Award for Best Actress) The Seagull directed by Peter Stein (Edinburgh Festival) Robert Wilson's The Days Before: Death, Destruction and Detroit III and My Life as a Fairy Tale (both at Lincoln Center) Woman and Scarecrow (Royal Court Theatre) Lady Gay Spanker in London Assurance (NT) Mrs. Other theatre includes Julia in The Rivals (National Theatre) Tatiana in Philistines, Celia in As You Like It, Mme. Further productions together have included The Good Person of Sichuan (National Theatre Olivier and London Critics' Awards, Best Actress), Hedda Gabler (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and West End London Critics' Award, Best Actress, Laurence Olivier Award for Direction and Production), Footfalls (Garrick Theatre, West End), Richard II (NT, Paris, Salzburg French Critics Best Foreign Production), The Waste Land (Brussels, Dublin, Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Cork, London, Adelaide, Perth, Dublin, Bergen, Madrid and New York two Drama Desk Awards, Best Director Obie Award) Medea (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, West End, BAM, Paris and Broadway Evening Standard Award for Best Actress and Best Director Tony Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Director and two Obie Awards), The Powerbook (NT), Readings (Paris a poetry show), Julius Caesar (Barbican, Paris, Madrid and Luxembourg), Happy Days (NT, Epidaurus, where it made history as the first 20th century text to be performed in the ancient theatre, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin, BAM), Dido and Aeneas (Vienna, Opera Comique - Paris, Amsterdam), Tony Kushner's translation of Mother Courage and Her Children (NT) and Peace Camp for the London 2012 Cultural Olympics. They first worked together on a landmark production of Electra at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988 (Olivier and London Critics' Awards, Best Actress). This year marks the 25-year anniversary of the working partnership between Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner. "The Testament of Mary"'s Fiona Shaw, Deborah Warner & Colm Toibin on Daring To Tell This Epic Story The New York Times calls The Testament of Mary “beautiful and daring.” The New York Review of Books calls it “subversive and ruthless,” and lauds it for its “sensational theatricality.” And Entertainment Weekly says it is “spellbinding and emotional. The historic collaboration between actress Fiona Shaw and director Deborah Warner results in the creation, for the first time, of a new work for Broadway, written by acclaimed author Colm Tóibín.
This was the official website for the controversial 2013 Broadway show by Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary, starring Fiona Shaw.Ĭontent is from the site's 2013 archived pages as well as from other outside press and review sources. The Controversial 2013 Broadway Show by Colm TóibÃn, The Testament of Mary