Premiere: Joyce Film at TIRFF (March 28) 📽️ 🎞️ 🇮🇪 🇨🇦

Join us at 11am Saturday 28 March when the Toronto Irish Film Festival (TIRFF) screens excerpts from One Little Goat’s new release, “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 4”, at TIFF Lightbox.

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Come see-and-hear Richard Harte’s virtuosic, filmed reading of James Joyce’s divine and delirious comedy, “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 4”, directed by Adam Seelig, filmed live at Type Books in Toronto. See you on March 28!

Screening in TIRFF’s Short Film Program 1. 

Goat in 2025 & ’26

Thanks to your support, One Little Goat has exciting news to share from the past year and the one ahead. Read on for updates and photos — and if you’re able, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help sustain our work. As a registered charity in Canada and the U.S., we rely on individual contributions to bring our productions to fruition. For 20+ years, we’ve made poetic theatre of the highest calibre, and we couldn’t do it without you.

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See you in 2026! In the meantime, wishing happy holidays and a healthy new year, —Adam Seelig, Artistic Director

JAMES JOYCE FINNEGANS WAKE FILM SERIES

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3 (NEW!)

We continue our epic project of filming all 17 chapters of James Joyce’s extraordinary, final work, Finnegans Wake (1939), in a first-of-its-kind reading series filmed before live audiences, read/performed by Irish-Canadian actors Richard Harte and Pip Dwyer.   

Chapter 1 film (86 min.) has been watched and heard over 10,000 times via YouTube and our Podcast Series combined, with enthusiastic responses from audiences in Canada, the United States, Ireland and beyond. 

Chapter 2 film (50 min.) launched online in May 2025 following 2024 festival screenings. 

Chapter 3 film (81 min.) is now online! following screenings at:

  • TIFF Lightbox / Toronto Irish Film Festival in March 2025

  • Bloomsday Film Festival Dublin in June

  • agréable musée gallery Tokyo in October

  • EU Film Festival in November.

Top right: Actor Pip Dwyer, EU Film Festival Artistic Director Jérémie Abessira, Actor Richard Harte. Left: a Chapter 3 screening. Right: Joyce Scholar Kaori Hirashige, One Little Goat Artistic Director Adam Seelig, Wake Japanese Editor Yuta Imazeki at the Tokyo screening.

CHAPTER 4 (TRAILER)
Type Books, Toronto

CHAPTER 5
Fisher Library, Toronto

CHAPTER 6
County Dublin, Ireland

 

The trailer for Chapter 4 is now online. Filmed with a live audience at Type Books on Queen Street in Toronto, Chapter 4 will screen at festivals in 2026. Details coming soon!

Chapter 5 film (70 min.) – Shot with a live audience at the stunning Fisher Rare Books Library in Toronto, Chapter 5 is in postproduction and will also release in 2026.

Chapter 6 film (130 min.) – Shot with a live audience at Fred Harte’s home (Richard Harte’s uncle) in the seaside town of Rush, Ireland, Chapter 6 begins postproduction in 2026.

Chapter 7 film (70 min.) – Shot with a live audience at PJ O’Brien’s Irish Pub in downtown Toronto in March 2025, Chapter 7 has wrapped!

Chapter 8 film (70 min.) – Shot with a live audience at Ulster Coin Wash, a laundromat in downtown Toronto (a fitting venue for “the washerwomen chapter”) and performed by Pip Dwyer in October 2025, Chapter 8 has wrapped!

Next Chapter (120 min.) is now in rehearsals to be performed and filmed live in 2026. Details to come.   

Chapter 7
PJO'Brien's, Toronto

Chapter 8
Ulster Coin Wash, Toronto

 

Left: location shot of PJ O’Brien’s Irish Pub, Toronto, Chapter 7. Right: Pip Dwyer with James Joyce at Ulster Coin Wash, Toronto, Chapter 8.

PODCAST

Our Finnegans Wake podcast series continues with Episode 20 on December 18 featuring special guest Kenji Hayakawa in conversation with Adam Seelig, plus readings by Richard Harte. Listen on podcast platforms (e.g. Apple) or at onelittlegoat.org/podcast.

NEW ALBUM

One Little Goat recently released “Finnegans Wake: Music from the Film Series” through streaming services (e.g. Spotify). The album includes “The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly” and the 19th-century song that gave Finnegans Wake its title.

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EU Film Fest 🇪🇺 free screening (Tue Nov 18 in Toronto)

Join One Little Goat at the Toronto European Union Film Festival for a screening of “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3” — the excerpt, screened for the first time, features actor Richard Harte reading/performing “a strawberry frolic,” inspired by the Daddy and Peaches Browning scandal of the 1920s. (For more on the excerpt and scandal, tune in to Episode 14, “Reel World” of our podcast series.) The excerpt will be followed by Dreamtown, a new, feature-length comedy from Ireland.

Photo (l-r): Andrew Moodie, Catherine Vaneri, Aaron Tucker, Richard Harte in “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3”

Details & Tickets

— 6pm Tuesday November 18
— Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Road, Toronto
— FREE Admission (first come first served) or $10 to reserve
— Trailer for Finnegans Wake Ch03

TOKYO SCREENING

On October 31st, Agréable Musée Gallery in Tokyo screened excerpts from One Little Goat’s Finnegans Wake film series alongside readings from Kenji Hayakawa’s new Japanese translation, with commentary by Yuta Imazeki and Artistic Director Adam Seelig (in Japanese and English, respectively) and interpretation by Kaori Hirashige. Thank you to the enthusiastic audience in Tokyo and to all involved for a most memorable event!

Photo (l-r): Kaori Hirashige, Adam Seelig, Yuta Imazeki, with projection of Kenji Hayakawa’s new Japanese translation

"The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly," Tokyo screening

"The Ballad…," Hayakawa's new translation

“Beware of the Goat” – this is Yuki, who lives near the Mizu Inari Shrine, Waseda University, Tokyo

Thank you for your support: Emigrant Support Programme from the Government of Ireland, Dolphin Gaming Centre, Friends of One Little Goat.

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Goat in Tokyo 🇯🇵 | Remembering Michael Blake

Join us in Tokyo, Japan on October 31st for a special screening and discussion of excerpts from One Little Goat’s Finnegans Wake film series with Japanese Joyceans Yuta Imazeki and Kaori Hirashige. The event will be in both Japanese and English and will feature excerpts from the new Japanese translation of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake by Dublin-based Kenji Hayakawa.

Date: 7pm-9:30pm, Fri Oct 31
Venue: agréable*musée gallery
Address: 1-chōme-42-8 Hikarichō, Kokubunji, Tokyo 185-0034
Details in Japanese

New Album

One Little Goat recently released “Finnegans Wake: Music from the Film Series” through streaming services (Spotify, Apple, YouTube, etc.). The album includes “The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly” and the 19th-century folk song that gave Finnegans Wake its title. Enjoy!

Podcast Returns

Thanks to all of you in Canada, the US, Ireland, England, Germany, Australia and beyond who have written to One Little Goat Theatre Company with enthusiastic comments on our Finnegans Wake film and podcast series. We really appreciate your eyes and ears and are delighted to share a new podcast episode with you, released today (2025-10-23), titled “Reality While We Sleep.” (Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and MacGyver all get special mention.)

Claude Gauvreau CENTENNIAL

Congratulations to our friend and colleague Thierry Bissonnette for editing and launching Claude Gauvreau vivant : (1925-2025), dedicated to Ray Ellenwood, translator of Gauvreau’s great play, The Charge of the Expormidable Moose (2013 English premiere by One Little Goat) and the libretto The Vampire and the Nymphomaniac.

  • Claude Gauvreau vivant : (1925-2025) is now in bookstores or click here to order.

  • Click here for more on The Vampire and the Nymphomaniac.

  • Click here for info on a rare performance of Gauvreau’s play L’Asile de la purité (at le gesù, Montreal, 2025-10-30).

REMEMBERING MICHAEL BLAKE (1971-2025)

Michael Blake brought intensity, mystery and wit to every moment of every role he played. One Little Goat audiences will most certainly remember his portrayal of ‘The Man’ in our 2009 English Canadian Premiere of Jon Fosse’s Someone Is Going to Come. Blake’s performance kept audiences guessing right up to the end (and well after): is The Man insinuating himself between ‘She’ and ‘He’ deliberately or by chance? You couldn’t take your eyes off him.

Recently in the Globe & Mail, Kelly Nestruck remembered Blake’s performance: “He was great at being a bit odd too – though my favourite of his weirdos wasn't in Shakespeare, but in a Jon Fosse play called Someone is Going to Come produced well before the Norwegian writer won the Nobel by Toronto's One Little Goat. Blake's unnerving smile as a stranger who pops up at the main characters' house is still a touchstone with the friend I saw it with.”

Read Kelly Nestruck’s full tribute in the Globe & Mail.

WAKE Chapter 3 in Dublin 🇮🇪 (June 16)

On Monday 16 June, the Bloomsday Film Festival will screen One Little Goat’s Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3 at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin as part of the 71st annual Bloomsday Festival. Admission is free! 

  • Screenings: 11:45am & 3:45pm

  • Film Length: 81 minutes

  • Address: 35 N Great George’s Street, Dublin

  • Trailer & More Details 

Photo l-r: Andrew Moodie, Catherine Vaneri, Aaron Tucker, Richard Harte in “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3.”

One Little Goat is honoured to be part of Bloomsday in Ireland for the third consecutive year. For those in and near Dublin, we hope you’ll be able to attend this wonderful festival.

Supported by the Emigrant Support Programme from the Government of Ireland and Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company.

PIP DWYER JOINS THE CAST OF FINNEGANS WAKE!

Raised in both Canada and Ireland and an alumna of the Samuel Beckett School of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Irish-Canadian actor Pip Dwyer joins our production of Finnegans Wake for “The Washerwomen” episode (Chapter 8). Stay tuned for more about the exceptional Pip in this extraordinary chapter, currently in rehearsals. Pip Dwyer on IMDB.

TORONTO IRISH FILM FESTIVAL (TIRFF) 2025

Thank you to all who joined for TIRFF’s screening of Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3 at the Toronto International Film Festival Lightbox in March!

On screen at TIRFF/TIFF, 29 March 2025.

John Galway (TIRFF Executive Director, left), Adam Seelig (One Little Goat Artistic Director), Toronto Irish Film Festival, 29 March 2025.

ARE YOU IN TORONTO ON BLOOMSDAY (JUNE 16)?

Join our friends at Anna Livia Productions for the 40th annual Toronto Bloomsday celebrating James Joyce’s (other) great novel Ulysses! 7:30pm Monday 16 June at Hugh’s Room, 296 Broadview Ave, Toronto. Hear their interview on Irish Radio Canada.

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FINNEGANS WAKE Chapter 2 is out!

“Finnegans Wake, Chapter 2” is now available for free viewing on One Little Goat Theatre Company’s website and YouTube (50 min., 4K High Definition)!

In addition to Star Wars, this May the 4th celebrates the 86th anniversary of Finnegans Wake. Happy birthday, Finnegans Wake, and May The 4th Be With You!

This marks the second of 17 chapters in James Joyce’s delirious comedy Finnegans Wake (1939), as brought to life by the virtuosic performances of Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte. The film also includes a superb rendition of “The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly” sung by Harte with piano accompaniment by director Adam Seelig. Filmed before live audiences, this multi-year project marks the first ‘audio-video book’ of “Finnegans Wake” and is a valuable resource for both new and seasoned readers of Joyce’s extraordinary final work.

“Actor Richard Harte has found a way to crack the private code and maintain the original voltage… of one of the most funny and challenging novels of the 20th century, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.” —Cahir O’Doherty, The Irish Voice 

“Joyce is good. He is a good writer. People like him because he is incomprehensible and anybody can understand him.” —Gertrude Stein

“Finnegans Wake,Chapter 2” premiered at the Toronto Irish Film Festival, European Union Film Festival, and Bloomsday Film Festival at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. The accompanying Podcast Series is also freely available online.

One Little Goat’s Finnegans Wake series is produced in association with the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. It is supported by the Emigrant Support Programme from the Government of Ireland and Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company. One Little Goat Theatre Company is an artist-driven, non-profit charity in the United States and Canada.

Premiere & Trailer: Joyce Film at TIRFF (March 29) 📽️ 🎞️

JOIN US FOR CHAPTER 3 OF JOYCE’S “FINNEGANS WAKE”

Join us at 11am Saturday 29 March when the Toronto Irish Film Festival (TIRFF) screens excerpts from One Little Goat’s new release, “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3” as part of the festival’s Toronto Irish Showcase at TIFF Lightbox.

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Come see-and-hear Richard Harte’s virtuosic, filmed reading of James Joyce’s divine and delirious comedy, “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3”, directed by Adam Seelig, filmed live in Toronto. See you on March 29!  

Goat in 2024 & '25

Thanks to your support, One Little Goat has great news from 2024 and for and the year ahead. Read all about it below, and if you can, please support One Little Goat's programming with a tax-deductible donation. As a registered charity in Canada and the USA, we depend on individual donations to realize productions. For over 20 years we have produced poetic theatre of the highest calibre for audiences of all ages, and we couldn’t make our productions happen without your help.

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See you in 2025! In the meantime, wishing happy holidays, a healthy new year, and peace, —Adam Seelig, Artistic Director

OUR BIGGEST PROJECT TO DATE…

…is growing, as we film all 17 chapters of James Joyce’s monumental final novel, Finnegans Wake, in a first-of-its-kind filmed audio book.

Chapter 1 film (86 min, 4K) – Following festival screenings in 2023, Chapter 1 has now launched on YouTube. Highly praised in the Irish Voice, it is receiving enthusiastic responses from new audience members in the USA, Canada, Ireland, England, France, Ukraine, Japan and Australia. Enjoy.


Chapter 2 film (50 min, 4K) – screened in 2024 to enthusiastic audiences at the:

Adam Seelig at the EU Film Festival (2024-11-27).

  • Toronto Irish Film Festival at TIFF in March

  • National Irish Canadian Cultural Centre and James Joyce Association of Ottawa in May for Wake’s 85th anniversary

  • Bloomsday Film Festival Dublin in June

  • European Union Film Festival in November.

We launch Chapter 2 on YouTube in the new year.

Richard Harte at the Ottawa River and Canadian Parliament (2024-05-06).

Harte & Seelig at the National Irish Canadian Cultural Centre Ottawa (2024-05-06).

Harte & Rosemary O'Brien, President of James Joyce Association of Ottawa (2024-05-06).

Chapter 3 film (81 min.) – Save the date-ish for March 2025, when we return to the Toronto Irish Film Festival at TIFF to screen “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3”. Details coming soon.

Chapter 4 film (90 min.) – shot with a live audience at Type Books on Queen Street in Toronto, Ch04 is in post production. Chapter 5 film (70 min.) – filmed at the magnificent Fisher Rare Books Library in Toronto, Ch05 has wrapped. Chapter 6 film (130 min.) – shot at Fred Harte’s home (Fred is Richard Harte’s uncle) in the seaside town of Rush, County Dublin, Ireland, Ch06 has wrapped.

Shooting in 2025 – chapters 7 and 8 are slated to shoot in the new year. Stay tuned…

Cinematographer Luke Brabazon (Wake Ch06), Drumanagh Martello Tower near Rush, Co. Dublin, Ireland.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme from the Government of Ireland.

PODCAST LAUNCH

On May 4, 2024, the 85th anniversary of Finnegans Wake, we launched our Wake Podcast with introductions by Adam Seelig and readings by Richard Harte. Two chapters and ten episodes in, the series is reaching new and returning listeners globally. Today (2024-12-12) we release Episode 11. Tune in via Apple/Spotify/etc. or at onelittlegoat.org/podcast.

(TAYLOR) SWIFT & JOYCE

“Wake It Off” — Tommy MacKay of Daily Reckless in Scotland combines Richard Harte’s reading of “the prankquean” with Taylor (not Jonathan) Swift’s “Shake It Off.” For real. Listen online.

NOBEL LAUREATE FOSSE ONLINE

Asymptote, the leading site for world literature in translation, recently published a scene from Harry Lane and Adam Seelig’s translation of Someone Is Going to Come by 2023 Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse. The play received its Canadian Premiere from One Little Goat in 2009 — praised in the Globe & Mail as “21st-century Beckett.” Read in Asymptote.

CLAUDE GAUVREAU AT 100

On August 19, 2025, we join colleagues in Quebec to celebrate the centennial of Montreal’s revolutionary poet and playwright, Claude Gauvreau (1925-1971), whose magnum opus, The Charge of the Expormidable Moose, received its English Language World Premiere from One Little Goat in 2013 — hailed in the Globe & Mail as “a tour de force” — and whose Vampire and the Nymphomaniac we published in a bilingual edition with Ray Ellenwood’s translation in 2022. We will keep you posted on details.

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King James Bible (1611), Finnegans Wake Chapter 5, Fisher Rare Books Library, Toronto, 2024.

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