Borne out of it was the germ for Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary, a novella (Scribner, 2012) and a one-woman Broadway play (starring Fiona Shaw directed by Deborah Warner). Tóibín’s course focused on works by or featuring strong women, including Sylvia Plath, Nadine Gordimer, Joan Didion and James Baldwin, as well as classical Greek plays like Antigone, Electra, and Madea. He called it “Relentlessness,” and before each class, he would drink a mix of a double espresso, Coca Cola, and sugar that he said he thinks pretty well mimics the effects of cocaine, and, as he put it in a panel discussion at the PEN World Voices Festival on May 3, “just go.” At least once, the class was actually kicked out of the building because it had gone so far over time that the staff was locking the doors for the night. Several years ago, Colm Tóibín taught an evening class at the New School in New York.
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