Joyced!
From: Thursday, 2nd August 2012
To: Sunday, 26 August 2012
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Synopsis
A whirlwind journey through Joyce's Dublin. Joyced!is a tour de force that takes us on a journey of Joycean Dublin in 1904. A whirlwind odyssey through the people, events and a year that would later be so famously recreated in Ulysses, it depicts some of the most important characters in Joyce's life; his father, John Stanislaus Joyce and his cronies, Oliver St. John Gogarty, the tenor John McCormack, Alfred Hunter (the man who would later become Bloom in Ulysses) and Nora Barnacle herself. It peers back at 1904 through the eyes of JoJo, a stallholder in Dublin's Rathmines Market, who has a dangerous obsession for all things Joycean. JoJo pulls us, like a person possessed, through the full gamut of James Joyce's crucial year.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 5 August 2012
A Dublin stallholder flies out of Rathmines Market on James Joyce’s Bloomsday, recreating a Joycean escapade parallel to the “real” fiction of Ulysses, and reclaiming the identities of the characters in the book.
Donal O'Kelly’s solo play, vigorously performed by his daughter Katie O'Kelly, is a regular little 45-minute tour de force that has been forced to tour in many other venues before settling in one of the unlovely George Square lecture theatres.
The setting is not inappropriate for the lit-crit aspect of a show that re-introduces us to Joyce's immediate circle on that fateful day in 1904: his father, John Stanislaus Joyce; his scholarly friend, Oliver St John Gogarty, who whisks him off to the Martello Tower at Sandycove for a quick dip in the Forty Foot; the tenor Count John McCormack singing (but is it him?) “Just a Song at Twilight”; Alfred Hunter, the model for Leopold Bloom; and Nora Barnacle, the hotel chambermaid who b...
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Donal O'Kelly (Author)
Breda Cashe ()
Sorcha Fox (Director)
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