Word: joyceã
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...Irishman, “He does not wish to conquer us, but have us conquer him. There are, in other words, no invitations, but the door is ajar.” Indeed, upon taking a seat for Boston’s Huntington Theatre’s production of James Joyce??s The Dead, one feels as though one has just stepped through an open door into a world where entire families really do assemble for the holidays, really do sing and really do celebrate the dead rather than mourn them...
...James Joyce??s The Dead is a musical that revolves not around plot, but delicate story telling; very little happens, but everything that does happen is thoroughly engaging...
...assembled characters somehow familiar but whom only Joyce could have written with any spark: a taciturn opera singer, an oddly cantankerous young girl, a merry drunkard and his mother (who manages to make Herod’s wife look like Mrs. Brady). All of these characters are auxiliary to Joyce??s self-referential creation, Gabriel (played with remarkable agility and discretion by Sean Cullen...
...there is a main element to the plot, it is that Aunt Julia is nearing death. The skillful adaptation of Joyce??s text by writer-director Richard Nelson indicates that reality, but does not go for mere empathy, instead communicating a hope that transcends death. At the same time that Julia’s health is failing, Gabriel is doubting the love borne for him by his wife, played by a lovely but somewhat grating Kate Kearney-Patch, who possesses a radiant voice but whose speaking voice requires more reining-in than was given by the director...
...We’re doing a big lit. drop tonight in Joyce??s home base—Milton-Randolph-Stoughton,” Ruben said...