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Gibraltar an adaptation after James Joyce’s Ulysses

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NEW YEAR’S DAY 2012 has been long-anticipated in the literary world as this date marks the end of European copyright restrictions on the publication and performance of James Joyce’s published works.

To listen to an interview with Patrick Fitzgerald about this show with Pat Kenny on RTÉ One, click here. Drag the cursor to 36:00, and play from there.

To celebrate this Joycean milestone, The New Theatre, Temple Bar, is staging Patrick Fitzgerald’s Gibraltar: An adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses for a two-week run, opening on January 1.
Gibraltar was first performed at the Bowery Electric, New York in October, 2010. The most recent performance was at the historic Plays and Players’ Theatre in Philadelphia on Bloomsday 2011, in association with the Rosenbach Museum where the original Ulysses manuscript is housed.

“It struck me, as an actor, that an understanding of the book could be helped by transposing it into play form,” says actor, writer and director Patrick Fitzgerald.

After experimenting for several years on an ‘epic’ play called Blooms’ Day, Fitzgerald changed direction and started working with his friend, the actress Cara Seymour, on Gibraltar. Following several readings and workshops, Terry Kinney – co-founder of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and an acclaimed Broadway director for writers such as Neil LaBute – came on board as consultant director.

About Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick Fitzgerald made his New York debut in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s first production and has appeared in numerous productions for the company since. Most recently he played the title role in Charlotte Moore’s production of Dion Boucicault’s The Shaughraun. He won the Clarence Derwent Award for Hal Prince’s Grandchild of Kings. Other theatre credits include Mike Leigh’s Ecstasy (Obie Award), The Sisters Rosensweig (Lincoln Centre and Broadway), Mojo (Atlantic Theatre) and A Clockwork Orange (Steppenwolf Theatre). Recent film work includes Marian Quinn’s 32A.

About Cara Seymour
Cara Seymour has been involved in a number of critically acclaimed theatre productions, including the Time Out Award-winning Now and at the Hour of our Death and the New York Obie-winning production of Mike Leigh’s Ecstasy. Film work includes featured roles in Dancer in The Dark, American Psycho, Adaptation, Gangs of New York, Hotel Rwanda, An Education, and the soon-to-be-released Jack and Diane. She has collaborated with Patrick Fitzgerald for nearly three years on this project.

About Terry Kinney
Terry Kinney is a co-founder of The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago. As an actor, his television credits include Oz and The Mentalist, and his film credits include Sleepers, The Firm, and Save the Last Dance. He directed the film Diminished Capacity in 2008. His most recent directing credits include Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty (Broadway) and Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July (Bay Street and Williamstown).

Reviews

  • “As an intimate evening of Joyce Gibraltar works extremely well. The two actors love of the work, their dedication to the challenge of respecting and vivifying the language on the stage shine through.”

    -- Irish Theatre Magazine, January 13th, 2012
  • “A unique and accessible opportunity to better understand a timeless masterpiece, as well as a refreshing (but daring) take on the classic for avid fans.”

    -- Totally Dublin
  • “Fitzgerald’s adaptation focuses on Bloom’s Dublin odyssey and Molly’s languorous sensuality, savouring Joyce’s words (with relish) … Featuring the lean and energetic Fitzgerald and the translucent Cara Seymour … Molly’s monologue is elegantly and accessibly realised … but for all the command and reverence of Fitzgerald and Seymour’s performance, its effect is to send you back to the book. That, one suspects, is how Joyce would have liked it.”

    -- Irish Times 11th Jan, 2012
  • “Fresh take on Ulysses is a deft delight ****”

    -- Sunday Business Post
  • “Fitzgerald’s lean, unhurried and elegant adaptation gives us a great sense of the dark and complicated riches in Bloom and Molly’s relationship, not least through Bloom’s elegaic self-transports of erotic reminiscences.”

    -- Irish Independent.
  • “Fitzgerald’s production consists almost entirely of Joyce’s words … Bloom is a comprehensible man … A light is shone on Molly … A fine
    account!”

    -- Sunday Times
  • “Gibraltar makes the convincing case that Ulysses is one of the most tender love stories ever written … a simple, heartrending story that resonates with the profound mysteries of love and desire, regret and affirmation. It’s also extremely bawdy… standout acting, a searching exploration of the human heart, and magnificent English.”

    -- Backstage
  • “Gibraltar does something both brave and fascinating; it plunges deeply and directly into the novel’s heart: the complex, bittersweet love story of protagonist Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly.”

    -- irishphiledephia.com
  • “Gibraltar is pleasurably accessible … It should be required viewing for anyone exploring Joyce’s world.”

    -- Broad Street Review

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Event Dates:
01/01/2012 - 14/01/2012
Author:
Patrick Fitzgerald
Company:
Rose Upon The Rood Productions
Category:
Theatre

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