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BLOOMSDAY FESTIVAL THEATRE HIGHLIGHTS
We’re officially one month out from Bloomsday 2022! Over the next few weeks we’ll be sending you out news and information about our complete festival programme. In our first festival newsletter we’ve included some highlights from our theatre selection. Book early to avoid disappointment.
Dubliners
by James Joyce, adapted by Michael West & Annie Ryan
TICKETS: €25 | €22 CONCESSION / PREVIEWS / MATINEES
TIME/DATE: 7.30pm, 9th-24th June
PRE-SHOW DINNER + SHOW: €50 (ON SELECTED DATES: 9th-11th, 16-18th, and 22nd-24th June; dinner seated at 5.45pm)
Following the success of Dublin By Lamplight, Freefall and Man of Valour, collaborators Annie Ryan and Michael West create a new adaptation of one of James Joyce’s most renowned works. This historic production marked the first large scale staging of the text.
In Dubliners, James Joyce offers an astonishing and enduring portrayal of the city – a mirror in which the people of Dublin, as Joyce once wrote, could take “one good look at themselves.” Directed by Irish Times award winning director Annie Ryan, the company deftly captures the rich humour, the small cruelties and the celebrated epiphanies of Joyce’s iconic stories in their ground-breaking transformational style.
bloominauschwitz
by Richard Fredman
TICKETS: €22.50
TIME/DATE: 14-18th June 7.30pm (additional performances on the 16th of June at 1pm, and 18th of June at 2.30pm)
Meet Leopold Bloom. Kidney-loving man of Dublin, hero of James Joyce’s great novel Ulysses and worldwide phenomenon. As usual, it’s 16 June 1904. But something is very wrong. Visitations from the future, ghosts from the past, and the haunting question, “Who am I and where do I come from?!” Escaping the bounds of his book, Bloom embarks on a quest to discover his Jewish heritage and plunges head-first into the dark heart of European history.
From critically acclaimed writer Richard Fredman comes Blooming Aushwitz, Combining highly a flamboyant, playful investigation of identity and belonging. physical theatre with the sheer joy of the spoken word, it is a one-man Odyssey of Herculean proportions: powerful, emotive and thought-provoking.
A Rare Journey
by Paula Greevy-Lee
TICKETS: €20 (€18 concession)
TIME/DATE: 8pm 14-18th June (additional 1pm performance 16 + 18th June)
“All those memories keep crowding my mind, like bits of auld songs only half remembered and then gone again.” A world premiere of a one woman show which celebrates the life of a remarkable Irish woman, Nora Joyce. The play, which is written and performed by Paula Greevy-Lee, is highly entertaining and filled with music, giving free reign to Nora’s witty and often acerbic commentary on her life and times. Beginning in 1946, five years after James Joyce’s death, A Rare Journey opens as Nora prepares to meet a young American journalist in a café in Zurich, where she still lives until she can get her late husband’s remains repatriated to Ireland. Anxious about what questions she’ll be asked by the journalist – and which ones she’ll answer! – Nora retraces the exhilarating highs and best-left-unsaid lows of her life since the fateful meeting with a cocky young James Joyce on Nassau Street all those years ago.
(There will be a post-show discussion after the show on Wednesday the 15th of June in honour of Bloomsday.)
Work In Progress: The United States v. Ulysses
by Colin Murphy
TICKETS: €15
TIME/DATE: 11.30am & 8pm 16th June, 12am 17th June
The United States v. Ulysses is the true story of one of the great literary trials of the 20th Century. First published one hundred years ago, James Joyce’s Ulysses was set to revolutionise literature – and finally make Joyce financially secure – until it was banned in America. The frank sexuality of Joyce’s characters was too much for the easily offended, and Joyce’s novel was quickly cancelled. It would take an enterprising New York publisher, a brilliant but controversial lawyer, and an eccentric judge to rescue Ulysses from obscurity.
Colin Murphy’s (Haughey/Gregory, A Day in May, Bailed Out!) new play tells the story of the legal odyssey that liberated Ulysses – and, with it, all of literature. This is arehearsed reading of a work in progress, adapted from Murphy’s radio play for RTÉ. Funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Strolling Through Ulysses!
by Robert Gogan
Strolling Through Ulysses! is a 75 minute one-man show that tells the fun-filled story of Bloomsday. Written and performed by Robert Gogan, Strolling Through Ulysses! guides you through the curious events and quirky characters of Ulysses in a humorous, entertaining and informative manner, with extracts from the novel which best illustrate the various aspects of Joyce’s writing-the comical, the descriptive and the complex – without compromising the integrity of the great book. Bawdy, irreverent and great fun.
Booking and further Information
https://www.strollingthroughulysses.com/
OVER 16’S ONLY
CENTENARY TOUR SHOW DETAILS
June 3rd, 8pm – Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny
June 8th, 6:30pm – Birr Library, Birr
June 9th, 8pm – glór, Ennis
June 11th, 8pm – An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk
June 13th, (time tbc.) – James Joyce Tower, Sandycove
June 14th, 8pm – Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen
June 15th, 3pm – Source Arts Centre, Thurles
June 24th, 8pm – Friars’ Gate Theatre, Kilmallock
June 25th, 8pm – dlr Mill Theatre, Dundrum
June 30th, 8pm – Carnegie Hall, Kenmare
For more information please visit: http://www.strollingthroughulysses.com
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