James Joyce's Dublin
by Gene Feist, Phil Campanella

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Highlights

Present Day Expandable Casting Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

This extraordinary portrait of Joyce reveals an Irish lad reared by a loving mother and a father proud of his status and middle class proprieties.

He was educated at private schools until bad times forced the family to move often, leaving a trail of unpaid rents.

At this time Joyce encountered his first sexual temptations and made his choice between chastity and concupiscence.

Here are the characters he wrote about: the Dubliners and those who peopled his self portrait of the artist as a young man.

Press Reviews

"Sensitive, satiric, warm, ironic study... It captures Joyce with love and fidelity."

— Record

"Goes straight to the heart of the early life of James Joyce."

— NYC News

Characters

Character
MARY JANE MURRAY JOYCE

a frail, pretty woman in her late 40s.

KATHLEEN MURRAY

a wide-eyed, blonde, Irish beauty.

MRS. JOSEPHINE MURRAY

a large, buxom woman.

WILLIAM MURRAY

a stout, self-satisfied man in his 60s.

STANISLAUS JOYCE

age ranges from 20s to mid 30s.

MR. D'ARCY

Red-haired, pug-faced, outgoing.

JIMMY JOYCE

Act one, Teenager.

JAMES JOYCE

Act two, mid-20s.

JOHN JOYCE

mid to late 50s.

MR. HOLOHAN

arrogant, pugnacious, in his 50s.

MR. FITZPATRICK

an elfin man in his 70s.

RILEY

a musician.

FATHER CONMEE

the Rector of Clongowes School.

STANTON

good-natured upperclassman.

MR. DEMPSEY

a church deacon.

GALLAGHER

flashy, man-about-town.

MISS PARKER

thinn-lipped spinster.

MR. ALLEYNE

snobbish, book-keeping office manager.

BROTHER KENNY

young Christian brother.

CELIA

uneducated country girl.

BARTENDER

genial, competent man who knows his place.

MAN (STRANGER)

middle-class grocer.

PRIEST (CAPUCHINE)

an over-worked, disillusioned parish priest.

BUTCHER BOY

tough, arrogant, guttersnipe.

SHEEHY

Penny-pinching slum lord.

+ 8 more characters

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573692567
ISBN-10 0573692564

James Joyce's Dublin is a play written by Gene Feist and published by Samuel French .

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