Circe is an episode written as a playscript, even if a playscript gone troppo.Hallucination is its own reality. Continue reading
Tagged with James Joyce …
A Novel for the Bloomsday Season
A rich plum pudding of a novel crammed with characters from the Joyce biographies and the novels, allusions and bits of text. Continue reading
A Walk on The Wild Side
Two Dublin men, Eric Moran and Ryan Haran, are, for the first time in its 32 year history, in leading roles in ‘Circe’s Carnival of Vice’. Continue reading
Time Gentlemen, Please: Is James Joyce dead?
Straight and dead he may be, but Joyce was from the race of the colonised, not the coloniser; of the oppressed class; not of ‘English’ literature, any more than Swift, Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Heaney. Continue reading
Reflections on Beckett provoked by ‘Dance First’
Beckett’s life, gravely played by Gabriel Bryne, unspools magnificently in a sequence of austere performed memories. Continue reading
Irish Film Festival Reviews: Tarrac & Dance First, That They May Face the Rising Sun, and more.
Tarrac, a heart-warming Irish language comedy drama set on the Kerry coast in Dingle… Joyce feels like someone we can know, though probably not like very much….The scaffolding and the bedrock of this visually sumptuous film is what it does with landscapes and cloudscapes and the imposition of the human impress on them. Continue reading
Symbiosis between an Artist and their Work
While Beckett’s encounter with Joyce teaches him he must follow a different creative path from Joyce’s to achieve his purposes, the same cannot be said of Lucia. Continue reading
Another Joycean, a Thespian, reviews ‘Rainbow Girl’
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Well, in the theatre, anyway. Continue reading
What’s On in June and beyond…
A Miscellany: Plays, Bloomsday, Christmas in July, Lughnasa Bacon and Cabbage, Talks, Music, singing, Dancing Continue reading
What’s On in May and June
Music, dancing, classes, seminar paper, festivals…. Continue reading
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