‘Mouths Making Water’, an adaptation of Finnegan’s Wake, will launch today in Dundalk IT and run until Friday.
Adapted and directed by Marc-Ivan O’Gorman, an award-winning filmmaker, theatre director and composer, from James Joyce’s challenging ‘Finnegan’s Wake’, the play will be performed by final year students on the BA in Performing Arts tonight, Thursday and Friday in the MacAnna Theatre on the DKIT campus at 8pm.
As many who have attempted to read Ulysess will already know, James Joyce is considered one of the most difficult writers in the English language and his final novel, one he spent the bulk of the last two decades of his life writing, Finnegan’s Wake, is by far his most challenging work.
And so, it is a testament to the ambition and bravery of the Creative Media department and the actors in the final year of the BA in Performing Arts to take on the challenge of transposing the immense rhythmic beauty of this text from the page to the stage.
The resulting production entitled Mouths Making Water consists of compelling scenes and dreamlike images from the book, that in Joyce’s own words, attempts to “reconstruct the nocturnal life” and to “experiment in interpreting ‘the dark night of the soul’.”
All are invited to attend and spend a short time exploring a story that one of Ireland’s greatest writers spent half a life time creating… and to remember that “every telling has a taling and that’s the he and the she of it”
Marc-Ivan O’Gorman is an award-winning filmmaker, theatre director and composer who has recently returned from teaching at the New York Film Academy in LA.
He is also the founder and director of The Irish Film Festival of India, Taylorfest & Cleverality Productions. He works as a consultant and freelance producer for various broadcasters around the world including RTE and TV3 in Ireland and Aaj Tak and Headlines Today in India. He has worked in a range capacities on several popular TV series including, The Apprentice, Access Hollywood and You’re A Star. He works regularly as a Promo Producer for RTE TV and has produced and directed various TV commercials in Ireland and India.
The Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts in DKIT is a three-year full-time professional actor training programme which encourages students to become ‘intelligent actors’, who are versatile and adaptable and equipped with a variety of performance and transferable work skills.
This is the latest public performance from this exciting and talented group of award-year students who have come through this professional actor training programme. This week’s show follows their very successful performance of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ last November. See www.dkit.ie/performingarts for more details.
Tickets are €8 (€4 concession) and bookings can be made by phoning 042 9370200 (extn. 2907) or emailing joske.slabbers@dkit.ie
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