(AGENPARL) – ven 01 settembre 2023 Joycenights, Culture Night, Dubliners and More
September will be an exciting month at the James Joyce Centre. In addition to our regular exhibitions and tours, we want to highlight three upcoming events that you won’t want to miss.
Joycenights Festival
9-14 September
The James Joyce Centre is proud to sponsor the Joycenights Festival, a literary festival at the James Joyce Tower & Museum in Sandycove from the 9th to the 14th of September.
In September 1904, James Joyce spent six nights in the Sandycove Martello Tower, where he would later set the opening episode of Ulysses. This festival commemorates his short but significant residency with readings, concerts, and a podcast.
Please see the schedule for more information.
This festival is supported by the Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum scheme.
See Full Schedule (https://joycetower.ie/joyce-nights-festival-9-14-september/?mc_cid=14c41a0ad0&mc_eid=UNIQID)
Culture Night 2023
22 September at 7:30pm
For Culture Night 2023, the James Joyce Centre proudly invites you to a recital of Jonathan Brielle’s acclaimed off-Broadway musical Himself and Nora, which celebrates in song the love story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle.
On September 22nd at 7:30pm in the James Joyce Centre, Broadway writer and composer Jonathan Brielle shall be performing numbers from the show in person and will be accompanied by the Director of the James Joyce Centre, Darina Gallagher. With Andrew Basquille presiding over the evening, the audience can look forward to Broadway storytelling at its very best.
This bawdy, funny, uplifting, and melodic musical, sings the contemporary love story of James Joyce, the brilliant and hard-drinking Irish novelist, and Nora Barnacle, the woman who became his lover, partner, and muse for 37 years. Their love survived exile from Ireland, and the condemnation of the Catholic Church, and ultimately helped to create some of the greatest writing of the 20th century.
Tickets are free but booking is essential.
“A lively, sometimes lusty, spin through the love life, troubles and literary times of the great Irish writer…a robust romantic musical . . . The enjoyable score by Mr. Brielle, a veteran composer . . . meshes neatly with his libretto and embraces a rhythmic variety of ardent and melodic songs.” – The New York Times
Broadway composer and lyricist Jonathan Brielle has worked with many hit shows including Foxfire with Jessica Tandy and is the former National Projects Director of the Songwriters Guild of America. Jonathan is the Artistic Director and Founder of Vala, a new platform dedicated to launching new musicals.
Counterparts & A Little Cloud
27 September at 7:30pm
The James Joyce Centre is proud to host the Volta Theatre Company’s production of two short stories from Joyce’s debut work Dubliners on September 27th at 7:30pm: Counterparts & A Little Cloud.
Joyce’s collection of short stories provides vivid “slices of life” of early 20th-century Dublin. Against the backdrop of a society in paralysis, a pair of Dublin lives are revealed in stark, sometimes brutal, scenes. In “Counterparts,” an ungainly, bad-tempered law clerk is determined to have a heavy night’s drinking, while in “A Little Cloud,” a sensitive soul is embittered by a meeting with an old university friend back from London. At once funny and tragic, relatable and disturbing, the stories are populated with an array of colourful characters who remain entirely contemporary, despite the bowler hats and Edwardian collars.
Performed by two actors in the iconic setting of the Joyce Centre’s Georgian drawing room, and featuring period music, this is an exquisite, intimate study of Joyce’s Dublin and its lives of quiet desperation.
Tickets are €18
Volta is a collaboration between classically-trained actors and musicians, combining theatre with cabaret, jazz and sketch comedy. Its remit is to bring classical theatre to a wide audience. Liam has worked with Shakespeare’s Globe, the Old Vic, and Second Age Theatre company and has written and performed sketch shows and comedy drama for Channel 4, RTE and the BBC. Jim has starred in Normal People, Harry Wild, Blood 2, Vikings, Damo and Ivor, Killinaskully, The Mario Rosenstock Show, The Tudors, and iCandy. Musicians Feilimidh Nunan and Conor Sheil work with all the principal orchestras in Ireland and have collaborated in a wide variety of musical genres ranging from jazz to traditional music.
The James Joyce Centre makes great effort to keep our events free and open to the public. We rely upon public and private donations in order to do so. We would greatly appreciate it if you would consider making a donation.
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The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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