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"What a delightful evening! Passages from Finnegans Wake, Mary Manning’s “free adaptation for the theater” of Joyce’s last work, came thrillingly alive in Boston’s Here Comes Everybody Players’ exuberant and creative staged reading at the 2015 Modernist Studies Association conference. For both Wake aficionados and novices, the evening was a real treat."
Michael Groden
    Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Western University Canada
    Author of “Ulysses in Progress" and “Ulysses in Focus"

“… an astonishing performance of Mary Manning's Wake on Saturday at the MSA conference”  
Professor Joseph Nugent,
    Boston College 

“A GLORIOUS production, it was tweeted throughout as a huge success by our members”  
Professor Paige Reynolds,
    Holy Cross College and MSA 17 Organizing C
ommittee Member

Passages from Finnegans Wake, a free adaptation for the Theater, by Mary Manning. 
​a staged reading for Modernist Studies Association Conference, MSA 17, Boston November, 21 2015​.  This wild, bawdy, heartbreaking play, closely based on the themes and language of Joyce's extraordinary book was first produced at the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1955 and has only occasionally been performed since.  The Here Comes Everybody Players first presented a staged reading in 2013 and thank the Modernist Studies Association for the opportunity to perform it again at MSA 17.
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Program
 
 
Scenes 1 & 2         The Wake, Afternoon
 
In which the late Finnegan is waked by his widow, Anna Livia Plurabelle, his sons Shem and Shaun, and his neighbors and is subsequently resurrected as H.C. Earwicker.
 
Scene 3         Anna Livia Plurabelle, Evening
 
In which two washerwomen gossip about Anna Livia, who is also the personification of the River Liffey.
 
 
Intermission
 
 
Scene 4         Earwicker and Sons, Night
 
In which Earwicker, Shem, Shaun, and others continue reveling late into the night.
 
Scene 5         Earwicker’s Dreams, Night
 
In which Shem and Shaun discuss their relationship, the tale of Tristan and Iseult is retold, and several provocative academic lectures are enthusiastically received.
 
Scene 6         The Morning After
 
In which members of the Wake arise after their night of debauchery and Anna Livia, the woman/ the river, returns to her father, the sea.
 


Cast
(in order of appearance)
 
 
Finnegan and Humphrey
Chimpenden Earwicker (HCE)         Donal O’Sullivan
 
First Dubliner                                Cahal Stephens
 
Second Dubliner                            Kevin Fennessy
 
Chorus, Radio Announcer,
Many Others                                 Rachel Sacks
 
Shem                                           Stephen Reinstein
 
Shaun                                           Josh Way
 
Young Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP)
the younger (ALP)                          Korinne Ritchey
 
First Woman                                  Ann Carpenter
 
Second Woman                              Jean Sheikh
 
Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP)
the older                                       Jean Sheikh
 
 
Musicians
 
Lidia Chang        Flute
 
Sean Connor       Fiddle
 
Tony Keegan       Percussion (bodhrán, bones, bell)
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