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Wonderland Productions proudly presents
Dubliners
by James Joyce
adapted by Alice Coghlan
We are delighted to announce our full cast for this production: please see below

Opens March 28th 2012: tickets available from this date at the Dublin Writers' Museum, 10am - 4pm. Phone: 01 872 2077.

One City One Book is a project designed to encourage everyone in the city to read the same book at the same time. The project promotes reading in a UNESCO World City of Literature which boasts one of the world's greatest literary heritages including four Nobel Laureates.

Few writers have had a greater sense of place and city, than James Joyce, and to walk Dublin's streets in his company is to completely experience his Dublin. And what better way to do it than in the company of Wonderland's Dubliners, a self-guided audio walk of the Dublin streets, interiors, houses, places and pubs, which are the historical locations in which Joyce set his classic short story collection Dubliners? As you walk, you listen to Joyce's stories on an MP3 player in their original locations, and thus you map the stories onto today's city, today's Dubliners and even the unique Dublin day you encounter.

How does unique theatrical experience work? Well, here is an example of your sixth story. For "A Little Cloud", you are directed to go to the "feudal arch" at the top of Henrietta Street where you press play. Here you hear that Little Chandler too is staring out at "the grass plots and walks" from his desk at King's Inns where "he turned often from his tiresome writing to gaze out of the office window" to think how "the friend whom he had known under a shabby and necessitous guise had become a brilliant figure on the London Press."

And after work Little Chandler is to meet Gallaher, so when he leaves work, you follow him on his route down Henrietta Street where he picks "his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life and under the shadow of the gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roistered" and on down Capel Street to a neighbouring pub. Once inside the pub you take a seat, and if you like you can enjoy a pint there, whilst you overhear the poignant scene between the two friends. From the window of the pub you overhear the young men from Two Gallants passing by, and then you follow this story to the Stephen's Green area. Thus the City of Dublin, its architecture, its geography and its people become your set for your stories and even a character and a protagonist in them, as Dublin is in fact in all of Joyce's novels!

Wonderland's Dubliners will be performed by ten of Ireland's best known classical actors in collaboration with some of Ireland's best emerging actors. It will be produced in partnership with Dublin City Libraries' One City One Book Festival for which Dubliners is the book, for their upcoming festival for the month of April 2012, and for whom Wonderland originally made their hit production of The Picture of Dorian Gray in 2010, which we're happy to say will be touring the nation for a fourth time in 2012.

Much like Alice Coghlan's adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray every word of this adaptation is Joyce's, what director/adaptor Coghlan has done is to simply edit and cut his work down to its essential moments and storyline so that the audience can enjoy a the arc of the whole collection, in a matter of hours, rather than days.

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Credits
From Wonderland Productions Ltd.
Director and Adaptor: Alice Coghlan
Sound Design: Tommy Foster and Alma Kelliher
Cast: Barry Mc Govern, Billie Traynor, Damien Devaney, Connolly Heron, Cormac McDonagh,
David Ferguson, Jim Roche, Sarah O'Toole, Stephen Jones, Daithí Mac Suibhne,
Caroline O'Boyle, Dave Fleming, Shona Weymes, Lizzy Morrissey, Susan Davey,
Amy Therese Flood, Nora Keneghan, Sarah Bradley, Ruaidhrí Ó Murchadha, and Aela O'Flynn.