Bloomsday Lock-in

BLOOMS DAY LOCK-IN

The World premiere adaptation & dramatization will be presented online on Saturday, June 20 (3pm NY/ Eastern Time) with all proceeds going directly to Chips Soup Kitchen & Women’s Centre in Brooklyn who feed over 350 meals a day to the homeless, and shelter homeless pregnant women & their infants.

We will screen on Saturday June 20, so that the piece can be viewed internationally.

James Joyce was a modernist and this promises to be a thoroughly fresh contemporary take on the novel that nobody wanted to publish & everyone tried to ban. This presentation favors a more dramatic conceit & will be an adaptation that features excerpts from the 1922 version of the book. Bloomsday Lock-in is a play on the current “lockdown” situation in COVID-19, a lock-in in Ireland is typically when the pubs shut but allow patrons to stay drinking and carousing after hours illegally.

BLOOMSDAY LOCK-IN will feature over 50 actors from stage, screen, literature and the music industry, including John Turturro (The Plot against Amercia, Batman, Barton Fink) Patrick Bergin (Cold Sun, Red Rock, Sleeping with the Enemy), Ian McElhinney (Game of Thrones, Derry Girls, Dr. Who) Aidan Gillen (Those Who Wish Me Dead, Game of Thrones, The Wire),Colin Quinn (Saturday Night Live), Spider Stacy (The Pogues), Barry Ward (Dating Amber, The End of the F***King World), Billy Carter (The Plot against America, Titanic), Olwen Fouéré (She Will, The Survivalist ) & renowned Irish poets Theo Dorgan & Paula Meehan along with a glittering international cast that stretches worldwide from Tipperary, Limerick, Galway, Belfast, Dublin, London, Strasbourg, Paris, Brooklyn, New York, Los Angeles.

The international cast includes actors from stage & screen: Susan Ateh,Sebastian Beacon,Donal Brophy,Steve Blount,,Robert Carroll, Jarlath Conroy, Gina Costigan, Graeme Coughlin, Adrian Crowley, Lydia Darly, Hazel Doupe, Cecile Dellepiere, Hilda Fay, Reggie Flowers, Daniel Fitzgibbon, Tony Fitzgibbon, Rosemary Fine, Eoin Geoghegan, Vera Graziadei, Steve Gunn, Frances Healy, Johnny Hopkins, Suzy Houlihan, John Keating, Laura Keating, Seana Kerslake, Aidan Kelly, Nick Lee, Laurence Lowry, Andrew Lynch, Kal Mansoor, Kevin Marron, Michael Mellamphy, Caroline Morahan, Keshav Moodliar, Elizabeth Moynihan, Helen Norton, Georgina McKevitt, Clara Onyemere, Kieran O’ Reilly, John Pirkis, Rachel Rath, Paul Reid, Erin Ruth, Laoisa Sexton , Bianca Stephens, Fiana Toibin, Betty Walsh, Declan Walsh, Zoe Watkins, Olga Wehrly, Sybille Wehrli, Ali Zayn & more!

Bloomsday Lock-in Producers Declan Walsh & Ten Thousand Hours Films
Presented in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller (Irish Film & Theatre Production)
Dan DeMello (associate producer/ world premier screening)

Directed by Trevor Murphy & Irish actress, Laoisa Sexton
Music score by Gavin Cowley
“Lass of Aughrim” performed by Betty Walsh

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