Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

Twenty-five years ago, Theatre Kingston produced its greatest success, Finnegans Wake: A Dream Play, adapted and directed by Craig Walker from the novel by James Joyce. This spring, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its premiere, Finnegans Wake: A Dream Play is back for a brief revival in a new production again directed by Walker. It will be running May 21 to June 7 in the Homestead Baby Grand, the very theatre in which it began before going on to conquer the Toronto theatre scene. It is exceedingly rare for a show to receive rave reviews in so many different publications. In The Globe and Mail, a review entitled “Theatre to wake the dead” raved that the production was “brilliant;” the Toronto Star asked “Who knew Joyce could be fun?” and described the show as “a roist... more...