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From the Green Room of ‘The Plough and the Stars’

From the Green Room of ‘The Plough and the Stars’

STEVE GOME, recently nominated for a Green Room Award,  plays Peter, the toy soldier, in The Plough and the Stars, O’Casey’s classic tragic-comedy about the Easter Rising, and has been reflecting on a play he increasingly admires:    A bunch of people crammed by circumstance into a confined area who know each other – as family, friend or foe … Continue reading →

Let’s Get Quizzical

Nature of Event: Let’s Get Quizzical  is a quiz show with canapés at PJ O’Brien’s Irish Pub. The MC is a master of quizzes and craic: Brian Gillespie. The questions will be broad-ranging, but it may be a tad advantageous to be Irish, or to know your way around matters sporting (the man is a … Continue reading →

‘Ulysses Prestissimo’: a slam version of the whole epic

‘Ulysses Prestissimo’: a slam version of the whole epic

James Joyce’s Ulysses may be termed ‘modernist,’ but it is such a unique work that it is difficult to categorize, and also very difficult to manipulate. In recent years Bloomsday Melbourne Inc. has edited and reshaped chapters for its quasi-theatrical presentations, but now, to take on the whole of this both internalized and externalized mammoth of a work, so geographically, physically and psychologically capacious, is to attempt something Herculean, including the stables! Continue reading →