I was first inspired to write this play when I visited Sylvia Beach’s wonderful bookshop ‘Shakepeare and Co’ in Paris in November 2019. The more I read about her incredible story, the more I thought it warranted a script of some kind. As I did my research however, the story I focused on took a different turn and as it was the centenary of the publishing of James Joyce’s Ulysses, I thought it would be an excellent time to tell the story of how Joyce met Sylvia Beach and the course of their relationship. I was extremely fortunate to receive funding from the Arts Council to work on this project. It is, at present, still a work in progress and this is just a zoom recording of a reading but I hope you enjoy it. I plan to adapt it to both stage and screen next.
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The actress in the post image is Nichola MacEvilly, who plays Nora and Joyce’s mother. Then we have Keith Duffy playing James Joyce, Hannah Edwards playing Sylvia Beach, Elisabeth Duda playing Adrienne Monnier and Alex McConnell playing the Nazi Officer, the American Lawyer and Darantiere.
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