Light Theatre Company was delighted to present:
A SEASON OF JOYCE FILMS in 2024
At The Kilbroney Bar, Rostrevor
ULYSSES - Joseph Strick
MONDAY 29TH. JANUARY 2024 at 7.00PM
Produced and directed by, Joseph Strick with a screenplay by Fred Haines, the film is based on the novel which tells the story of day in the life of Leopold Bloom.
ULYSSES was made in Dublin and stars Milo O'Shea as Leopold Bloom, Barbara Jefford as Molly Bloom, Maurice Roëves as Stephen Dedalus, T. P. McKenna as Buck Mulligan, Anna Manahan as Bella Cohen, Joe Lynch as Blazes Boylan, Fionnula Flanagan as Gerty McDowell with May Clusky, Máire Ní Ghráinne, Thomas MacAnna, Eddie Golden and Brenda Doyle in the cast.
THE DEAD - John Huston
MONDAY 12TH. FEBRUARY2024 at 7.00PM
Directed by John Huston and written by his son Tony Huston, the film stars his daughter Anjelica Huston.
THE DEAD is an adaptation of the short story of the same name by James Joyce, which was first published in 1914 as the last story in Dubliners. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany,the film was Huston's last as director, and it was released several months after his death.
The film takes place in Dublin in 1904 at an Epiphany party hosted by two sisters and their niece. The story focuses on the academic Gabriel Conroy (Donal McCann) and his discovery of his wife Gretta's (Anjelica Huston) memories of a deceased lover. The ensemble cast also includes Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Dan O'Herlihy, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Seán McClory. Colm Meaney and Rachel and Bairbre Dowling.
NORA - Pat Murphy (2000)
MONDAY 26TH. FEBRUARY 2024 at 7.00PM
Pat Murphy’s Nora, based on Brenda Maddox’s 1988 novel of the same title, centres on Nora Barnacle’s tempestuous relationship with James Joyce but, significantly, it begins at a point in Nora’s life in Galway, and the unfortunate end of her relationship with Michael Bodkin, rather than when she meets Joyce in Dublin. This immediately establishes Nora’s life as her own rather than simply part of Joyce’s larger story. Once in Dublin, the focus remains on Nora, who has taken up a job at Finn’s Hotel, where we see her well able to hold her own amongst the male
It is love at first sight when raffish young writer James Joyce meets the simple barmaid Nora Barnacle for the first time. The couple leave Ireland and set up home in Trieste where their passionate and tempestuous life together begins.
With Susan Lynch in the title role, Ewan McGregor as James Joyce, Andrew Scott as Michael Bodkin, Vinnie McCabe as Uncle Tommy and Veronica Duffy as Annie Barnacle.
BLOOM - Sean Walsh (2003)
POSTPONED - see BLOOMSDAY EVENTS
Adapted from James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, by James Joyce, ‘Bloom’ is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consciousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
This 2003 Irish film written and directed by Sean Walsh and produced by Odessa Pictures. It stars Stephen Rea as Leopold Bloom, Angeline Ball as Molly Bloom and Hugh O'Conor as Stephen Dedalus
The film premiered at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. Angeline Ball won the award for "Best Actress in a Film" at the Irish Film and Television Awards The soundtrack was written and produced by Dvid Kahne.
