Her Song be Sung

Directed by
Gillian Hardy

Laura O’Sullivan Vines

Simon McGuinness

A play about James Joyce’s women by Roslyn Hames and Frances Devlin-Glass with Di Silber.

14–16 June 2004
The Sugar Club,
8 Lwr Leeson Street, Dublin 2

Her Song be Sung asks the question: does Joyce speak to contemporary women? The question is not easily or simply answered, as Joyce was a revolutionary thinker about gender. In this play, an Australian bride, escaping from her wedding, tries to find out if Joyce offers any insights into her dilemma. In doing so, she interrogates Joyce himself, two female ghosts from his life (his publisher and his patron) and characters who have intimately entwined their lives with Joyce’s characters. It’s bold, brassy, feisty and refuses to take Joyce at his own valuation, or to make a saint of him.