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** Counterparts & A Little Cloud
Friday, 30th May at 7.30pm
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The James Joyce Centre is delighted to welcome back the Volta Theatre Company production of Counterparts & A Little Cloud, an adaptation of two short stories from Joyce’s Dubliners on Friday, 30th May at 7.30pm.
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, Jim Roche and Liam Hourican, in the iconic setting of the Joyce Centre’s Georgian drawing room, and featuring period music with incredible musicians Feilimidh Nunan and Conor Sheil, this is an exquisite, intimate study of Joyce’s Dublin and its lives of quiet desperation.
‘lighting up the genius of Joyce’s Dubliners’ Sunday Independent
‘beautifully dramatised … a perfect hour’s entertainment’ Irish Independent
‘two superbly articulated performances’ The Arts Review
Tickets are €20. Doors open at 7pm.
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