Assuming that you don't have a horse in this particular race, how does "The TestamentofMary" come across when considered not as an antireligious statement but as a piece of pure drama?
"The TestamentofMary" and "The Death of Walt Disney" feature central characters obsessively honing and asserting the stories of their lives to an audience that enters the theater with widely held preconceived notions.
The one-woman show, "The TestamentofMary, " opened Monday at the Walter Kerr Theatre starring Fiona Shaw sharing the stage with a live vulture and taking big bites out ofthe New Testament.
While it would surely be transgressive in the extreme to stage "The TestamentofMary" in, say, rural Mississippi, mounting it on Broadway is about as daring as writing a musical that makes fun of Mormons.