It’s rare for journalism to scour deep into the underlying meaning of a subject. I know far more about subjects I’ve seen plays about than those I’ve read about in newspapers or magazines. I could have written an article, but journalism just doesn’t stick. Like Tóibín, Hare found drama to be the ideal medium through which to tell his story. Via Dolorosa was written in 1997 in response to David Hare’s own visit to the Middle East. The play was originally performed by its author.
Having a live audience is both terrifying and a great relief. You might get reviews, or someone might tell you something-the closest thing is seeing stars on Amazon. . You never know at what point they thought this or that. You can spend your life writing novels and never see anybody reading them. Tóibín’s initial choice of drama as the vehicle through which to tell the story fulfilled a particular purpose. As he told an interviewer: The author then turned his monologue play into a novella titled The Testament of Mary, and finally into a new draft of the play under the same title, which premiered on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in 2013. Tóibín originally wrote the play under the title Testament, which premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2011. Two groups – the Israelis and the Palestinians – are in constant battle over a few narrow miles of land… To his credit, Hare does not judge who is right… Rather, he comes out troubled like the rest of us, and deeply aware of the human failings of pride, anger, and self-interest on all sides in this compelling and personal solo drama.”Ĭolm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary and David Hare’s Via DolorosaĬolm Tóibín, primarily a novelist, and David Hare, playwright and screenwriter, have bravely ventured into this fraught territory to provide their own perspectives-Tóibín reimagining the voice of Mary, Hare delving into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the inside out.
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“The 90-minute, no-intermission piece is a tour de force by Jackson and a riveting torrent of words about a tiny country with intractable problems that seems to dominate the daily headlines, despite its distance from the West. “It reinforces one’s faith in theatre as a means of communication…a deeply moving theatrical mosaic.” Part of the Next Rep Black Box Festival, alongside The Testament of Mary. Via Dolorosa is the illuminating result, combining interviews and conversations with artists, politicians, historians, and settlers with the author’s own experiences in an extraordinary narrative that examines ideologies and issues of faith from those living in “The Holy Land.” In 1997, Olivier Award-winning playwright David Hare visited Israel and Palestine to better understand the complex conflicts of the region and to write a play based on his travels.
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