by Tasha Jones | May 22, 2018 | Articles, Bloomsday, Samuel Beckett, Theatre
In 1956 Beckett’s Waiting for Godot had its American premiere at the Coconut Grove in Miami. One of the stars of this legendary fiasco was Bert Lahr. Colleen Curran’s new comedy Godot at the Coconut Grove gives a behind the scenes look at the day of and morning after the disastrous opening night.
by Marlene Ellen Chan | Mar 31, 2018 | Abbey Theatre, Articles, Theatre
Dublin’s Abbey Theatre program, Waking the Nation, begun in 2015 to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising featured only 1 of 10 plays written by a woman, and 3 of 10 directed by women. This can be viewed as a remarkable paradox in retrospect partly given the now-documented role of women in the 1916 Rising and in the history of the Abbey Theatre founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1904.
by Tasha Jones | Feb 25, 2018 | Articles, Books, Ulysses, William Blake
From the moment I laid eyes on the book William Blake by Kathleen Raine I knew that I had to have it. I was immediately hooked by the artwork of Blake (1757-1827) whose images slowly revealed themselves to my mind’s eye like those cunning illusions in the Magic Eye books I so loved as a kid. This had also been my experience of reading Joyce’s Ulysses, multiple times.
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 23, 2018 | Articles, Bloomsday, Festival News, James Joyce, Montreal
It’s our 7th annual festival! See the tentative schedule for Bloomsday 2018. Five-Day Festival: Tuesday to Saturday, June 12 to 16.
by Judith Schurman | Feb 23, 2018 | Abbey Theatre, Articles, Festival News, Ireland, James Joyce, Theatre, Ulysses
Hello, fans of Ulysses! Do you want to see a play version of Joyce’s Ulysses in Montreal? Will it come to Montreal? The answer: It may be up to us and our enthusiasm for the project. Translation: Are we willing to do the work to make it happen?
by Tasha Jones | Jan 24, 2018 | Articles, Books, James Joyce, Poetry, Robbie Burns
If you’re feeling adventurous and would like to try and decipher a passage from Finnegans Wake this article is for you. As an added bonus, I’ll share an amazing connection I personally have to the text, and to our newsletter Joyicity.
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