Wonderland Theatre ©2003-2009
Wonderland Productions proudly presents
Dubliners
by James Joyce
adapted by Alice Coghlan
Tickets available now for the full day Dubliners adventure here and half-day here.
Or in person at the Dublin Writers' Museum, 10am - 4pm. Phone: 01 872 2077.

In 1914 the epiphany that awoke the world's imagination to the battered yet tumultuous city of Dublin, her streets, and her people, was a modest book of short stories that would become a defining Irish classic, James Joyce's Dubliners.

Wonderland Productions' Dubliners is a self-guided audio-walking tour - you tour the streets and historic buildings in which Joyce set his classic stories, whilst you listen to these stories on headphones, as they are performed for you by a large ensemble cast led by the celebrated Joycean actor Barry Mc Govern.

Dubliners - A Full Day's Epic, guides the Joycean enthusiast across Joyce's city, from Chapelizod to Ringsend, via his adolescent years in North Richmond Street. Dubliners - A Half Day's Adventure focuses on the seven tales which occur inside the city centre. Both audio-walks include the unique chance to hear The Dead, inside the historic House of the Dead, "the dark gaunt house on Usher's Island" where Joyce's aunts lived, until the Festival run ends on Sunday May 6th.

How does unique theatrical experience work?

You collect an mp3 player, headphones, and map from the Dublin Writers' Museum. From its Georgian doors, you take a few steps to Hardwicke Street, the setting for "A Boarding House" where you press Track 1 and listen. After this you press Track 2 as you walk down the side of Parnell Square in the company of "The Two Gallants""The Sisters" on Parnell Street and so on, until like Joyce's characters you have walked the streets of his city. Simply put on your headphones, to walk and to listen, as all of Joyce's Dublin and his Dubliners come to life in the streets through which you are walking.

Much like Alice Coghlan's adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray every word of this adaptation is Joyce's, what director/adaptor Coghlan has done is to simply edit and cut his work down to some of its essential moments and storylines, so that the audience can enjoy a the arc of the stories of the collection, in a matter of hours, rather than days.

Wonderland's Dubliners is performed by some of Ireland's best known classical actors in collaboration with some of Ireland's best emerging actors. It is produced in partnership with Dublin City Libraries' One City One Book Festival, with whom Wonderland originally made their hit production of The Picture of Dorian Gray in 2010, which is touring the nation for a fourth time in 2012.

One City One Book is a project designed to encourage everyone in the city to read the same book at the same time. The project promotes reading in a UNESCO World City of Literature which boasts one of the world's greatest literary heritages including four Nobel Laureates.

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As part of:
Unesco logo One City One Book logo

and with thanks to: Dublin Writers' Museum and

James Joyce Centre

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Dubliners

What our audiences say:

"I've lived here all my life but today I saw my city with new eyes, as Joyce's Dublin came to life in the streets all around me"

""Evocative, atmospheric and wonderfully emotional. Sitting at the candlelit dining table... with the ghosts of Joyce's characters hovering all around me... I almost felt I could see their faces"

Read more here

Dubliners on the stairs

What the critics say:

"If there's any justice, this invigorating tour will become just as essential as the book that inspired it" - Daragh Reddin, Metro Herald

"The tour is extremely impressive... A tiny little mp3 player holds some beautiful recordings of these fabulous stories. Slipping on your headphones and heading out onto these historical streets, you are immersed deep into each story..."
- Kate O'Connor,QualityWaffle.ie

"a quality piece of work, and a real addition to the city's Joycean scene. Both as a way to see Dublin with fresh eyes and as an enjoyable recounting of the stories from Dubliners, this is a winner."
- Dave Madden, DublinCulture.ie

"walking the streets of Joyce's Dublin has a transporting effect that stays with you.... I can't think of a much better way to celebrate this monumental year for James Joyce, or indeed to spend a sunny Saturday in our fair city." - Entertainment.ie

Read the full reviews here.

One City One Book 2011




Credits
From Wonderland Productions Ltd.
Director and Adaptor: Alice Coghlan
Sound Design: Tommy Foster and Alma Kelliher
Photography: Eugene Langan
Cast: Barry Mc Govern, Billie Traynor, Damien Devaney, Connolly Heron, Cormac McDonagh,
David Ferguson, Jim Roche, Sarah O'Toole, Stephen Jones, Daithí Mac Suibhne,
Caroline O'Boyle, Dave Fleming, Shona Weymes, Lizzy Morrissey, Susan Davey,
Amy Therese Flood, Nora Keneghan, Sarah Bradley, Ruaidhrí Ó Murchadha, Aela O'Flynn and Steve Wilson.
Recorded at Dublin City FM.