The New Theatre Presents A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, 6/12

In the name Stephen Dedalus, he adopted in this, his early masterpiece, Joyce signalled his need to escape the nets he claimed Ireland would trap him in - religion and nationality. He would seek to fly "above these nets". Unique among his contemporaries he laid claim for the artist's freedom from such temporal concerns to "forge the uncreated conscience of his race". Thus began his life long task of sketching the universal human condition he had observed around him in Dublin in the real lives of ordinary people.

In the course of A PORTRAIT which covered the first decades of his life, we see him creating his own individual aesthetic, as opposed to the dictates of the Church, and he leaves Ireland to live mostly in poverty, but at liberty to seek nourishment from other cultures. The novel eventually published in 1916, contains some of the most dramatic scenes in modern literature.

Wednesday, 12th June @ 7.30pm

Previews Mon 10th, Tues 11th

Tickets €15 / 12 (conc) / 10+ (groups)

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