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FALLING THROUGH THE UNIVERSE @ THE MARKET HOUSE, MONAGHAN
a telling of “The Dead” by James Joyce – framed in a personal memoir written and performed by DECLAN GORMAN
When and where
Date and time
Thu, 8 Jun 2023 20:15 - 21:45 IST
Location
The Market House Monaghan Market Street Monaghan Ireland
Refund Policy
About this event
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Mobile eTicket
Monaghan actor, Declan Gorman, renowned for his interpretations of Joyce and Kavanagh will give an “unplugged” club performance in his home town, prior to the London premiere of his solo Joyce show on Bloomsday. If you missed it at the Garage last year, this is a unique, intimate chance to catch this "charming, elegant" performance where he recalls a life in the arts and his lifelong love of a storybook, via 20 years of letters home to his parents in Monaghan.
On January 6th 1982, the young Monaghan emigrant borrows a book from a library in Germany. He reads “Dubliners” over one evening, culminating with “The Dead”. The course of his life changes: slowly but irredeemably…. Forty years later, he walks onto a stage to recreate the night he discovered James Joyce’s miniature masterpiece and perform one of the greatest short stories ever written in the English language.
“The Dead is brought elegantly to life... Declan Gorman’s charming autobiographical play dramatises clearly how Joyce’s writing has embedded itself deeply in Irish culture. Gorman’s subtle performance reminds us clearly what a masterwork this story is.”
Irish Independent
“Just a chair, a coat stand and a copy of Dubliners... Joyce’s story allows Gorman to demonstrate his theatrical impulses, as well as his theatrical influences… keeps us engaged for 80 minutes.”
Irish Times
DIRECTED BY GERARD LEE