“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.