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Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 13 to 19 of Joyce’s last novel, which will include the dialogue of Mutt and Jute, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (pages 13:20-19:19) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 31 August 2022.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake.

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This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support!

Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership.

Thank you to the artists for this episode: Kevin Kennedy, Sound by William Bembridge, Podcast production by Sean Rasmussen, Stage Management by Laura Lakatosh, Rehearsal Stage Management by Sandi Becker, Directed by Adam Seelig.

Thanks to our live audience of Pip Dwyer, Cathy Murphy, Nomi Rotbard, Arlo Rotbard-Seelig; and thanks to our rehearsal audience of Jackie Chau, Jordy Koffman, Andrew Moodie & Shai Rotbard-Seelig.

Thank you to the Embassy of Ireland in Ottawa and the Irish Consulate in Toronto and to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie.

Special thanks to Øyvind and Susanna Haga for advising Richard and me on Scandinavian pronunciations for the dialogue of Mutt and Jute.

Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: Robert Houle, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), dialogue, Mutt and Jute, Mutt and Jeff, Laurel and Hardy, Jutland, Denmark, Vikings, Battle of Clontarf (1014), Brian Boru, dismantling the norms of fiction and drama, four-dimensional characters, August Strindberg, characterless, characterlessness, pronouns ‘you’ and ‘me,’ Waiting for Godot, miscegenations, the Gospels, Mamalujo, Jewish calendar, 1132, Galileo on how things fall, Finn MacCool, Rush (Dublin County), “allaphbed”, synopsis.

Resources:

Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 13-19.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.comJames Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2016.

John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

More on characterlessness: Adam Seelig, “EmergeNSee: Get Head Out of Ass: ‘Charactor’ and Poetic Theatre”. The Capilano Review, Vancouver, 2010, pp.32-52.