The Dublin Theatre Company presents
Mr Joyce Is Leaving Paris, by Tom Gallacher
As part of Summer Stage@the Back Loft Theater
16th of June until end August 2013
The play will run every evening except Sunday from 8pm.
Tickets are priced at €18 for individual tickets and €15 for group bookings.
For Bookings contact 083 156 33 91 Monday to Friday between 10am-5pm or email backloftmrjoyce@gmail.com
The Back Loft Theatre and The Dublin Theatre
Company are pleased to announce a new summer theatre programme, entitled “Summer Stage @ The Back
Loft Theatre” in association with DIAGEO, which will
take place in The Back Loft, 7-11 Augustine Street (off Thomas Street) during
the months of June, July and August 2013.
The Back Loft Theatre is an unusual,
bohemian style venue, located in a restored former Victorian factory in The
Liberties which can hold a 70 seated audience.
It currently houses 24 artists’ studios and mounts exhibitions and
theatrical events in its large warehouse style open space. This is the first classical theatre programme
the venue has embarked upon that will run for a lengthy period.
This summer Dublin Theatre Company will
stage Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris, by Tom
Gallacher, Directed by Ronan Wilmot. It will open on Bloomsday, June 16th.
Ronan Wilmot has previously directed Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris in London at The
King’s Head; Islington and in 1997 in Berlin at Friends of Italian Opera; Plaz
de Lufbruke.
Mr Wilmot said, “We are delighted to stage
Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris in such a unique and attractive venue for an extended
period over the summer months. We are
delighted that DIAGEO have supported us. The Back Loft Theatre is a charming
artistic centre located in what was originally a hive of sweat shop industry!”
General information
Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris is a play about
James Joyce when he was living in Trieste in Italy with Nora Barnacle and their
children. He was teaching in The Berlitz
College and was also the opera critic for the local newspaper. His brother Stanislaus comes from Dublin to
support them as they were living in dire poverty while Joyce was drinking and
not writing.
The second part of the evening is set in
Paris in 1939 as the Germans are advancing on Paris and Joyce is about to
travel to Zurich in Switzerland. He is
now an ageing, nearly blind man and he is confronted by ghosts/friends from his
past that he has used in his famous novels –Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake, and The
Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man.
A gripping, moving, fascinating insight
into Ireland’s most famous writer.
Ronan
Wilmot - Director
Ronan Wilmot has acted with the Royal
Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court, the Young Vic, The Liverpool Playhouse
7;84 Co. in the UK; in Ireland with the Abbey, the Peacock, the Gate, the
Project, the Focus and Dublin Stage One in Ireland. He set up Portrait Theatre
Co. to co-direct with Cicely Berry OBE “Murder in the Cathedral” by TS Eliot in
Christ Church Cathedral in 1991 during European City of Culture which ran for
nine weeks.
He formed The Dublin Theatre Co. to present
“Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris,” “Waiting for Godot” and “Exiles” by James Joyce in
Berlin in 1996, 1997 and 1998. He directed “The Ginger Man,” by JP Dunleavy in
The New Theatre and it toured to New York and Canada in 2000.
As artistic director of The New Theatre,
Dublin he has directed “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Entertainer”. He wrote and
directed “The Man Who gave The Beatles Away” and directed “Fool for Love “in
November 2003. As an actor, films
include; “The Field”, “In The Name of the Father”, “The Snapper”, “The Van”, TV
includes “The Insurance Man” and “Shergar”, BBC TV and “Wanderly Wagon”, “On
Home Ground” and “Bachelor’s Walk,” RTE.
He set up and co-directed The Clifden
Country Blues Festival for eight years, 1989-1996. He has directed “The Hostage”, “The Shadow of
a Gunman”, “Shirley Valentine” and “Stags and Hens” at The New Theatre. Adapted
and directed “Reunion” by Fred Uhlman for The New Theatre (2010) performed by
Daniel Reardon, a world premiere. He
directed “The Quare Fellow” by Brendan Behan at The New Theatre 2010 which ran
for nine weeks.
He currently acts in “The Tailor and Ansty”
and “The Watchman” and recently directed “Apples” in The New Theatre.
