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James Joyce Centre, Thursday 11th January
Please join us at the James Joyce Centre on Thursday, 11 January 2024 at 7:30pm for a musical theatre performance based on two short stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners, Eveline & Clay. The performances shows how two women, leading restricted lives in a newly modern Dublin, make journeys towards an elusive freedom. First presented in 2009, the show is a revival of the collaboration between the accomplished composer, Michael Holohan, and the award-winning Joyce interpreter and actor, Paul O’Hanrahan.
Written by Joyce when he was a young man between the ages of 22 and 23, ‘Eveline’ and ‘Clay’ were both significant stepping stones in his development as a writer. ‘Eveline’ was initially published in the Irish Homestead in September 1904, not long before Joyce himself left Ireland with Nora Barnacle. ‘Clay’ was completed by December 1905 but it would not be until 1914 that both were published in the collection, Dubliners. The stories show a remarkable ability in a young writer to understand and represent how women’s lives were regulated and controlled by the patriarchal family, work, and religion.
Music in these stories is a form of memory and a means of socialisation; an intrinsic part of Dublin society at the time, it is already embedded in Joyce’s writing. Michael, who is from Drumcondra, has scored new piano music for these performances, drawing on an affinity with the setting of the stories on the city’s north side.
- Date:
- Thursday 11th January
- Time:
- 7.30pm
- Price:
- €12
- Address:
- James Joyce Centre, North Great George's Street, Rotunda, Dublin, Ireland
