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Bloomsday in Melbourne's
brand new play for 2026!
BETWEEN THE LINES
The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters
Written by Steve Carey and directed by Renee Palmer
fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Wednesday 17thJune-Sunday 21st June 2026
Tickets onsale now
Bloomsday in Melbourne's annual Seminar, Lunch and Joycean entertainment takes place at The Wild Geese, Brunswick, on Sunday 21st June

When a young scholar makes the discovery of the century – letters between James Joyce and comedy legend Groucho Marx – she believes she has secured her legacy.
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But in the cut-throat Joyce industry, credit rarely goes to a woman. Between The Lines is a razor sharp, wryly witty literary mystery that follows her descent into a patriarchal web of ego and academic theft.
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As her groundbreaking discovery is hijacked by the very mentor she trusts to protect it, truth begins to blur.
Packed with intellectual gymnastics and dramatic reversals, the story asks: who gets to own history?
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In a world of literary giants, you can’t trust even the evidence of your own eyes…​
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