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Edna O’Brien’s ‘Joyce’s Women’ // Abbey Theatre Review Joyce’s Women ought to have been titled Joyce Framed by his Women

PHOTO: Genevieve Hulme-Beaman as Lucia Joyce and Stephen Hogan as James Joyce in Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Edna O’Brien’s involvement with James Joyce began far earlier than her publication of James and Nora in 1981, and her subsequent … Continue reading Edna O’Brien’s ‘Joyce’s Women’ // Abbey Theatre Review Joyce’s Women ought to have been titled Joyce Framed by his Women

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man // REVIEWED Amyrose Forder looks at Rough Magic’s recent staging of a James Joyce classic.

●●●●○ Rough Magic’s new production of Joyce’s seminal novel teeters on triumph. After the success of Joyce adaptations on stage in recent years – including the Abbey’s productions of The Dead and Ulysses – it is no surprise that the … Continue reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man // REVIEWED Amyrose Forder looks at Rough Magic’s recent staging of a James Joyce classic.

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Always Meeting Ourselves: “Ulysses” at the Abbey Theatre Dermot Bolger carves out the human core of Joyce’s expansive masterpiece, focusing the play around the human drama of the novel.

●●●●○ Dermot Bolger’s stage adaptation of Ulysses brings the brilliant cacophony of Dublin life to a boil, as the production chronicles a dizzying microcosm brimming with the inherent contradictions of human experience. Bolger, in fact, carves out the human core … Continue reading Always Meeting Ourselves: “Ulysses” at the Abbey Theatre Dermot Bolger carves out the human core of Joyce’s expansive masterpiece, focusing the play around the human drama of the novel.