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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 414 comments "Riverrun Through It: Imagining & Reimagining Finnegans Wake" by Stephanie Boland , March 23rd @ The Quietus.

(can those other posts on riverrun get moved over here?)

"With 'riverrun', the newest in a long line of artistic adaptations of Joyce's famously-less-than-permeable novel, currently playing at the National Theatre Stephanie Boland considers the difficulties of adapting and interpreting Finnegans Wake and Olwen Fouéré's production"
http://thequietus.com/articles/14795-...


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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 414 comments Geoff wrote: "Some reviews of Olwen Fouéré's Riverrun now at The Shed at the National Theatre in London.."

One more short notice ::
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ent...


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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 414 comments A review in The Telegraph ::
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/th...

And few Geoff links that he's not moved over this thread yet and may never ::
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


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Geoff | 166 comments Nathan "N.R." wrote: "And few Geoff links that he's not moved over this thread yet and may never ::"

Apologies! There's so much to pay attention to on this damn site, I kant kyeep et al strayed!


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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 414 comments Geoff wrote: "Apologies! There's so much to pay attention to on this damn site, I kant kyeep et al strayed! "

Nomind. That's why I linked to your links cuz I'm too lazy to make new links for 'em over here from over there.


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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 414 comments "The Shed: riverrun, the voice of the river in Finnegans Wake by Olwen Fouéré" :: an interview ;;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bra7p...

And a trailer ::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN2Nk...


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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 414 comments riverrun comes to America ::

Sep 17—Sep 20, 2014
Brooklyn Academy of Music ::

http://www.bam.org/theater/2014/riverrun

"“riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay...”[1] Adherents of James Joyce’s 1939 tome Finnegans Wake espouse the idea that its language comes to life only when read aloud. Singlehandedly validating that claim, formidable Irish actress Olwen Fouéré, assuming the role of the river Liffey, offers this incandescent interpretation of the final section of Joyce’s “book of the night.” A force of nature possessed of every crackling phrase, Fouéré (who also adapted and directs the piece) turns Joyce’s prose into an undulating soundscape, inhabiting the voice of Anna Livia Plurabelle, the river’s personification, as she swells and surges her way through the Wake’s end and out to sea."


Note, too that there is also this discussion with Simon Critchley, "On Truth (and Lies) in Joyce", connect'd with riverrun ::
http://www.bam.org/talks/2014/on-trut...

"Irish performer Olwen Fouéré joins philosopher Simon Critchley to discuss the lasting influence of James Joyce, from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, to the twisting of Greek epic form in Ulysses, to Finnegans Wake, the subject of Fouéré’s riverrun."


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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 414 comments riverrun has a series of dates in Scotland ::
Traverse Theatre, July 29-Aug 24, various times.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-en...


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Geoff | 166 comments Olwen is now in DC playing Salome in a new production for the Shakespeare theater - it's getting great reviews, might go check her out...


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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 414 comments Geoff wrote: "Olwen is now in DC playing Salome in a new production for the Shakespeare theater - it's getting great reviews, might go check her out..."

Too bad it's not riverrun ; but it's like the best next thing!


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