Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY MEETING (Folkways; $11.90). Set in the midst of a windy "Meeting of the Joyce Society" is a perfect Eden of recitation: James Joyce reads the closing pages of Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake. Though the recording was made long before the days of hifi. Joyce's voice is so subtle, takes cadence and grades pitch with such finesse, that only a good record player can keep within an Irish mile...
Beyond this, a great share of praise for the success of Finnegans Wake must go to Roger Graef, whose musical arrangements worked around and through the language and the acting to supply gaiety and pathos when required, and generally add immeasurably to the vitality of the production. Nora White Shattuck's choreogrpahy was also a prominent and amusing addition...
...biting off Finnegans Wake, the Poets' Theatre fortunately discovered that its eyes wee not bigger than its stomach. In fact, this choice offering of rich Joycean language should satisfy the most demanding of theatrical gourmets...