Bloomsday Lock-in

A new film & adaptation celebrating James Joyce Ulysses
The film was made entirely in lockdown.

Featuring: JOHN TURTURRO, AIDAN GILLEN, SHANE MAC GOWAN, SPIDER STACY (The Pogues), PATRICK BERGIN, COLIN QUINN, BARRY WARD, OLWEN FOUÉRÉ & RENOWNED IRISH POETS, THEO DORGAN & PAULA MEEHAN. THE PRESENTATION FEATURES ASWELL AS A GLITTERING INTERNATIONAL CAST THAT STRETCHES WORLDWIDE FROM TIPPERARY, LIMERICK, GALWAY, BELFAST, DUBLIN, LONDON, STRASBOURG, PARIS, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES.

THE WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING ON JUNE 21-28 WILL RUN FOR 1 WEEK ONLINE & DONATIONS WILL SOLELY BENEFIT CHIPS SOUP KITCHEN & WOMEN’S CENTER IN BROOKLYN

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 70 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), 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 form stage & screen: Susan Ateh, Sebastian Beacon,Donal Brophy,Steve Blount,Liam Carney, Jarlath Conroy, Gina Costigan, Graeme Coughlin, Adrian Crowley, Hazel Doupe, Hilda Fay, Vera Graziadei, Steve Gunn, Frances Healy, Johnny Hopkins, Suzy Houlihan, John Keating, Laura Keating, Aidan Kelly, Alan King, Nick Lee, Laurence Lowry, Andrew Lynch, Kal Mansoor, Kevin Marron, Michael Mellamphy, Caroline Morahan, Keshav Moodliar, Elizabeth Moynihan, 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, Sybille Wehrli, Ali Zayn & more!

The world premiere will be presented in aid of Chips Soup Kitchen
Produced by Ten Thousand Hours films
Directed by Trevor Murphy and Laoisa Sexton

Chips Soup Kitchen & Women Center a Brooklyn charitable organization that feeds over 350 meals a day to the homeless, and shelters homeless pregnant women & their infants.