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.