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The
Panel Play
Panel & Characters
The Claybill
The Text - introduction
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Scene IV
Scene V
Scene VI
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Preface
The
play introduces Finnegans
Wake in a playful
rather than didactic manner. Accordingly,
while the script utilizes actual text from the book, it twists, revises
and rearranges it, puts words into the mouths of those who never said them
and generally violates times and sequence - to capture a Joycean mood
while making Finnegans
Wake more
accessible.
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Imagine
a 7-layer cake.
In
the bottom layer is HCE, a tavern-keeper with wife, ALP, and three children.
Next
layer: they are Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel, and all who fall.
Another
layer: Tristan and Isolde and King Mark.
A
mythological layer: Finn MacCool, King Arthur's Court, the giants that
walked the earth.
Historical
layer: Parnell, Napoleon, Wellington.
Musical:
Wagner, Irish airs, popular songs, children's games, nursery rhymes.
Communication:
language, writing, printing, press, radio, TV.
The
seven layers and more are mixed and stirred - ABRACADABRA! a marble cake -
it's
FINNEGANS
WAKE!
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The
Cast
(in order of appearance)
Narrator
Anna Livia Plurabelle, aka ALP
Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, aka HCE
Humpty Dumpty
Eve
Tristan
Shem & Shaun
Issy
Isolde
Russian General
All the action takes place someplace.
Scene
I At the Wake
Scene II Marriage and the
Family
Scene III The Crime in the
Park
Scene IV Young & Old, Love
& Incest, Tristan & Isolde
Scene V Buckley and the Russian
General
Scene VI Back to the Wake
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