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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...
Joycity--a Poets' Theatre production of a Ulick O'Connor play celebrating the life and work of James Joyce. In a virtuosic one-person performance, Irish actor and mime Vincent O'Neill brings joyce and a multitude of the bard's characters to life. At the Poets' Theatre at the Hasty Pudding at 12 Holyoke St. at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 to $20 and are available at the box office...
Chaplin, the fourth of eight children of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill, and Thierree, who has performed for such talents as Federico Fellini and Peter Brook, share a sense of theater as a primal force and of spectacle as something inward. For them it is not spiritual, exactly, but not entirely show biz either. Their circus began in 1971 in Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines...