{"id":3439,"date":"2024-05-14T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?post_type=events&#038;p=3439"},"modified":"2024-06-18T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:32:09","slug":"counterparts-a-little-cloud-2","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/events\/counterparts-a-little-cloud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterparts &amp; A Little Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bloomsday Festival 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>16 June 2024 at 5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Counterparts-800.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Counterparts-800.png 800w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Counterparts-800-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Counterparts-800-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The James Joyce Centre is proud to host a special Bloomsday showing of the <strong>Volta Theatre Company&#8217;s <em>Counterparts &amp; A Little Cloud<\/em><\/strong>, an adaptation of two short stories from Joyce\u2019s debut work\u00a0<em>Dubliners<\/em>, on <strong>Sunday, 16 June 2024 at 5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joyce&#8217;s collection of short stories provides vivid \u2018slices of life\u2019 of early 20th century Dublin. Against the backdrop of a society in paralysis, a pair of Dublin lives are revealed in stark, sometimes brutal, scenes. In Counterparts, an ungainly, bad-tempered law clerk is determined to have a heavy night\u2019s drinking, while in A Little Cloud, a sensitive soul is embittered by a meeting with an old university friend back from London. At once funny and tragic, relatable and disturbing, the stories are populated with an array of colourful characters who remain entirely contemporary, despite the bowler hats and Edwardian collars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performed by two actors in the iconic setting of the Joyce Centre\u2019s Georgian drawing room, and featuring period music, this is an exquisite, intimate study of Joyce\u2019s Dublin and its lives of quiet desperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are \u20ac20. To purchase tickets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/bloomsday-festival-2024-counterparts-a-little-cloud-tickets-904790331237?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volta is a collaboration between classically-trained actors and musicians, combining theatre with cabaret, jazz and sketch comedy. Its remit is to bring classical theatre to a wide audience. Liam Hourican has worked with Shakespeare\u2019s Globe, the Old Vic, and Second Age Theatre company and has written and performed sketch shows and comedy drama for Channel 4, RTE and the BBC. Jim Roche has starred in\u00a0<em>Normal People<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Harry Wild<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Blood 2<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Vikings<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Damo and Ivor<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Killinaskully<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Mario Rosenstock Show<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Tudors,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>iCandy<\/em>. Musicians Feilimidh Nunan and Conor Sheil work with all the principal orchestras in Ireland and have collaborated in a wide variety of musical genres ranging from jazz to traditional music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bloomsday Festival is organised by the James Joyce Centre in partnership with F\u00e1ilte Ireland, Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3442,"parent":0,"template":"","event_cats":[20,13],"class_list":["post-3439","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_categories-bloomsdayfestival","event_categories-performance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Counterparts &amp; A Little Cloud - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Counterparts &amp; 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