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Kathleen I. Finnegan, who prepares star charts for patrons at Seven Stars, says the persistance of the ancient practice of astrology is good proof of its effectiveness...
...example, Finnegan, 40, offers her intuition throughout her life that she would never have children. When she discovered her star chart had "Saturn moving backwards in the sky in the fifth House," which meant that she was extremely unlikely to become a parent, her belief in astrology was confirmed...
Vincent O'Neill's performance in Joyicity defies the term monologue. He plays more than 40 Joycean characters, interspersed with renditions of the author himself. For long-time Joyce fans, his impersonations will stir up recollections of the devilishly spirited "Gracehopper" in Finnegan's Wake and the roaring Citizen in Ulysses. But even for the uninitiated, O'Neill makes Joyce accessible...
This production achieves accessibility through O'Neill's striking combination of talents. Not only is he a dynamic speaker, but he is also a powerfully expressive mime, trained by Marcel Marceau. And for the virtually impenetrable Finnegan's Wake, mime is the audience's salvation from a potentially tedious recitation of word-play in 37 languages. Director Catherine Fitzgerald has skillfully balanced the priority due to the written word with physical enactments that provide crucial footnotes to the text...
After magnetizing the audience with glimpses of Ulysses, O'Neill intrepidly leads the audience into Finnegan's Wake. He gently holds the audience's hand through most of it, relating (in standard English) the background Joyce had acquired in the language and culture of many countries, and explaining the transition from odyssey of the conscious to odyssey of the unconscious...