Whirlwind drama on Joyce at Town Hall

The latest work from playwright and actor Donal O’Kelly will be at the Town Hall for one night only on Tuesday next, February 12.

Joyced! is a tour de force of Joycean Dublin, catapulting the audience through the year 1904, which Joyce would later make famous in Ulysses. The play looks back at 1904 through the eyes of JoJo, a stallholder in Dublin's Rathmines Market, with a dangerous obsession for all things Joycean.

JoJo careers like a person possessed through the full gamut of 1904 as James Joyce his battles with his mad dad; wins a bronze medal win for singing in the Feis; is involved in a crazed night of gunfire in the Sandycove Tower; is rescued from Monto mayhem by the man who became Bloom; develops passion for Nora Barnacle and enjoys their fabled walk on June 16.

Joyced! is directed by Sorcha Fox and performed by Katie O’Kelly. It was one of the big Irish success stories at Edinburgh 2012, where it was nominated for Best Solo Performance Award, while Irish critics have also praised it. They include Emer O’Kelly in the Sunday Independent, who stated that Joyce’s Dublin “comes alive under Donal O’Kelly’s tumbling prose and Katie O’Kelly’s fervent performance”.

Donal O’Kelly’s record as a writer is well known, with previous success including Catalpa, Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son and The Cambria.

Joyced! comes to the Town Hall Theatre for one night only on February 12th, 8pm

Tickets cost €12/ €16 concession and booking is now open at the Town Hall Box Office, by phone at 091-569777 or on the web at www.tht.ie