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Topic: RSS FeedSan Diego, Calf.: keeping up with the Joyces.(FRONT and CENTER)(play on the life of writer James Joyce by Sheila Walsh)
American Theatre, March, 2005 by Sampson, B. Walker
ON JUNE 16, 1904, JAMES JOYCE AND NORA Barnacle went on what might just be the most famous first date in literary history. And it wasn't even the date they first agreed upon--Joyce waited for Nora on the 14th, but she didn't show up. The second try has since become Bloomsday, the single day on which Joyce chose to set his Everyman Odyssey Ulysses and, as Richard Ellmann wrote in his 1959 biography, "Joyce's most eloquent if indirect tribute to Nora, a recognition of the determining effect upon his life of his attachment to her."
It is in this spirit that playwright Sheila Walsh approached writing a play on the life of Joyce, looking at it less as the portrait of an artist than as a great love story. What began as a play eight years ago premieres March...
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