Well I am one proud blogger.
The Here Comes Everybody Players were amazing at Bloomsday 2014! So, today, I give you a retrospective in pictures (and one video clip) of the wildly successful weekend!
On Saturday, HCE Players kicked off their celebrations with
Finnegan's Wake at
Darc Space Gallery. Then, the performers were asked to do an impromptu
performance for a Joycean pub crawl and were such a hit on Duke Street
that they were asked to reprise on Sunday.
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| Cast & musicians outside The Bailey on Duke St. |
The crowds on
North Great George's Street on Sunday for 15 scenes from each of the
Dubliners stories (woe be unto those who call the book 'The
Dubliners') were enormous and the volunteer audience players were outstanding. Spectators came from around the world including Australia, North America and across Europe (and those are just the ones this blogger talked to) to laugh and enjoy both Joyce's work and the beautiful weather.
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| HCE Players & some of the audience participants on North Great George's Street |
On Monday, it was a standing room only crowd at the
James Joyce Centre as the group tackled
Ulysses with their trademark humour and talent.
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| Donal addresses the standing room only crowd at the James Joyce Centre |
All in all, a rousing success - let's hope they can reprise next year!
Click through for more photos...
Saturday, 14 June 2014
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| The audience has their scripts ready! |
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| Cathal uses the local architecture on Duke Street |
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| Finnegan's Wake - Donal, Stephen and Cathal take a bow |
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| Tony on the bones |
Sunday, 15 June 2014
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| Enjoying a Bloomsday meal before the performance begins |
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| Sean gathers the crowd for the first performance |
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| Donal welcomes everyone to Dubliners street theatre with the HCE Players |
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| Ann addresses the sizable crowd |
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| Tony leads the audience to the next stop on the Dubliners street theatre experience |
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| Can you spot Ann and Stephen dancing and acting in the middle of this massive crowd? |
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| Cathal thanks the crowd for coming and invites them back for more tomorrow! |
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| Sean on the fiddle |
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| Tony on the bodhrรกn and Sean on the fiddle |
Back to The Bailey for Round 2
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| The audience mark Finnegan's demise with their 100-letter word |
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| Cathal and Stephen in Finnegan's Wake |
Monday, 16 June 2014
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| Donal addresses the standing room only crowd. |
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| Ann brings down the house with her performance from Ulysses |
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| Cathal revists the saints. Now was that Saint Anonymous, Eponymous or Synonymous? |
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| Tony and Ann at the James Joyce Centre |
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| Due to huge crowds, HCE players spend the break re-blocking because we can't all fit in the final location! |
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| Cathal makes his entrance, followed by Stephen who gives some audience members quite the surprise |
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| Stephen's had better mornings - to the delight of the audience |
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| Cathal, Donal and Stephen in Ulysses |
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| Cathal drops in |
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| Stephen in Ulysses |
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| Tony and Sean - The musicians |
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| A final bow for the full cast at the James Joyce Centre |
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| Cathal and Donal do one last performance at Market Square |
What a weekend!
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