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Rehearsing Remotely
MEET THE TATTY TENORS (1996-2017) ….. Asked to outline their history, Ralph Devlin muses: The Tatty Tenors of Brisbane are men of many parts, most of them smaller than average. The musical group was...
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Getting up Noses, especially Joyce’s
Joyce to be Steam-Punked at the Spiegeltent! Our intrepid (and highly imaginative) director, Wayne Pearn, is extremely excited to have the opportunity to perform in the Melba Spiegeltent, as are key...
View ArticleBloomsday in Melbourne on Instagram
Bloomsday in Melbourne has been retrieving our archived photos from 24 years of theatre inspired by James Joyce’s fiction. A selection from the treasury of images is to be found on Instagram at...
View ArticleCourses on Ulysses
It’s been a busy time for courses in the last few months. An intensive Introductory course, the first ever intensive course hosted by U3A, was fully subscribed in February and feedback was very...
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High Voltage Women of Passion
This review appeared in Tinteán, 6 March 2017 of Bloomsday’s Fringe event, Fair and Furious: Women of the Táin, devised and performed by Niki na Meadhra, Celtic Club, Melbourne, 24-25 Feb. 2017...
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News of Bloomsday in Melbourne 2017
Dear Bloomsday Patron, Happy New Year. We’ve been keen to share our programme for 2017 with you, and apologies for the delays but now, things are in place and here’s the good oil, at last: Bloomsday...
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Happy Christmas to all our patrons
Bloomsday in Melbourne thanks patrons for your warm support in 2016: three events to honour the centenary of the Easter Rising were packed out, as was our season at fortyfivedownstairs to mark the...
View ArticleSave the Date: Niki na Meadhra returns with a show on The Tain and its women
Fair and Furious: Women of the Táin You’re the first to hear! 24-25 February 2017 at the Celtic Club Some academics have declared the Táin misogynistic in its treatment of female characters, but having...
View ArticleInto the River with a splash
The Finnegans Wake reading group at U3A (see earlier post) has an almost full (and record) complement of readers and has got off to a splendid start. 2 places remain in course (Enquiries to U3A on 03...
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New Finnegans Wake reading group
Marshal McLuhan’s working copy of ‘Finnegans Wake’, in the University of Toronto Library. A group of Joyceans has been meeting for courses on Joyce for several years now at U3A Melbourne City....
View ArticlePortrait Wrap
We were humbled and gratified by the level of support for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man directed by Wayne Pearn at fortyfivedownstairs. A sell-out four days ahead was a major achievement for...
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Bloomsday is nearly upon us….
Have you seen Dan Walls’ videos of rehearsals and interviews with actors? https://www.facebook.com/Bloomsday-in-Melbourne-211541918892093/...
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From a simmer to a rolling boil…..’Portrait’ as you’ve never seen it
Rebel without a Pause. Matt Dorning as Stephen. Photo by Bernard Peasley. Get Tickets Soon…. Some notes about what’s happening from the Bloomsday’s Green Room The boiler house is now well and truly...
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Bloomsday in Melbourne 2016 Programme Unveiled
The angst-ridden poet broods. Matt Dorning as Stephen Daedalus. Photo by Bernard Peasley. ‘Exotic, patriotic, chaotic, erotic and hypnotic…..’ (Pearn) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man turns 100...
View ArticleA bold new venture….
The Guardian (UK) report on a new theatrical version of Finnegans Wake is inspiring.
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From the Rehearsal Room…..
STEVE GOME, recently nominated for a Green Room Award, is playing Peter, the toy soldier, in Plough and the Stars, O’Casey’s classic tragic-comedy about the Easter Rising. He has been reflecting on a...
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Vale, Bill Johnston, thespian
An Obituary Bill Johnston at Bloomsday 2008 – the wedding of the forest trees. Bloomsday in Melbourne mourns a foundation Bloomsday Player, Bill Johnston, who died on Good Friday. He joined Bloomsday...
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Vale, Bill Johnston, Thespian (and other things) (1936-2016)
An Obituary for Bill Johnston Bill Johnston at Bloomsday 2008 – the wedding of the forest trees. First published in abridged form in Tinteán. Bloomsday in Melbourne mourns a foundation Bloomsday...
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Rebel Poets and their Friends
This post was originally published in the online Irish-Australian magazine, Tinteán, and is reproduced with their permission. Writers often take some of the claim for creating the conditions under...
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The Easter Rising (1916) through the Eyes of O’Casey
The Plough and the Stars: the flag under which the Irish Citizen Army marched. The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey, directed by Wayne Pearn, is Bloomsday’s next offering at the Celtic Club. 27...
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