Future Events 2019
Sunday 6th January 2019
EPIPHANY
A solo theatre performance
revolving around James Joyce's 'The Dead'
Written and performed by Declan Gorman
Directed by Gerard Lee
Special Thanks to Noel O'Grady for his kind permission to use his version of “The Lass of Aughrim”
“Like Gabriel Conroy in the story, I experience a moment of sudden revelation: what Joyce would have called an ‘epiphany’: that a story could do that to you... fill you with such a longing...”
A young Irish migrant reads James Joyce’s “The Dead” in a borrowed library book over a snowbound afternoon in a bar in Germany in 1981. He finds himself immensely moved by the story, enacting it in his imagination. Almost four decades later he walks out onto a bare stage and enacts it for an audience in a gripping solo theatre performance.
“A compelling performer” Irish Theatre Magazine
The Anaverna Connection
Last January 6th, Declan Gorman entertained guests at a gathering at Anaveran House weaving anecdotes of his life as a writer and theatre maker in among readings from some of his favourite writers including poets Patrick Kavanagh and Eavan Boland, but in particular James Joyce. Out of that convivial festive evening came and idea for a full-scale show. With support from The Arts Council and Fingal County Council he has created a finely-honed solo show which combines memoir with a telling and enactment of Joyce’s majestic story, “The Dead”. It premiered to high praise at Draíocht Arts Centre in Blanchardstown in December and will embark later in 2019 on national and international tours. But first, Declan returns home to Anaverna for a one off performance of the completed work, in the room where it all began.
A solo theatre performance
revolving around James Joyce's 'The Dead'
Written and performed by Declan Gorman
Directed by Gerard Lee
Special Thanks to Noel O'Grady for his kind permission to use his version of “The Lass of Aughrim”
“Like Gabriel Conroy in the story, I experience a moment of sudden revelation: what Joyce would have called an ‘epiphany’: that a story could do that to you... fill you with such a longing...”
A young Irish migrant reads James Joyce’s “The Dead” in a borrowed library book over a snowbound afternoon in a bar in Germany in 1981. He finds himself immensely moved by the story, enacting it in his imagination. Almost four decades later he walks out onto a bare stage and enacts it for an audience in a gripping solo theatre performance.
“A compelling performer” Irish Theatre Magazine
The Anaverna Connection
Last January 6th, Declan Gorman entertained guests at a gathering at Anaveran House weaving anecdotes of his life as a writer and theatre maker in among readings from some of his favourite writers including poets Patrick Kavanagh and Eavan Boland, but in particular James Joyce. Out of that convivial festive evening came and idea for a full-scale show. With support from The Arts Council and Fingal County Council he has created a finely-honed solo show which combines memoir with a telling and enactment of Joyce’s majestic story, “The Dead”. It premiered to high praise at Draíocht Arts Centre in Blanchardstown in December and will embark later in 2019 on national and international tours. But first, Declan returns home to Anaverna for a one off performance of the completed work, in the room where it all began.
