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The Award Winning Shem The Penman … Revisited
Written & Performed by Paddy Scully
The Black Box Friday 10 June – 8pm Tickets : £ 10
An entertainment based on the life & work of James Joyce . The setting is Switzerland and Joyce is putting the finishing touches to his latest – but an interfering world war is jeopardising its publication !
In an extraordinary , often comic , stream of consciousness , Dublin , its ghosts and apparitions are evoked giving our hero a hard time in his Zurich refuge ; the gossiping Anna Livia washerwomen , dirty Bloom , Stephen Dedalus , Gabriel , Gerty McDowell and the mob in Barney Kiernan ’ s pub . All are words to him …. words … words … and more words ’
This award winning show has been performed widely , from the UK to Europe and the USA .
“ Scully expands himself into a whole pubful of people . Great skill , very funny indeed ” Times Literary Supplement
“ His evocation of the life and times of James Joyce is a truly remarkable performance ” The Scotsman
David Aaronovitch
With Stephen Walker
Crescent Arts Centre Friday 10 June – 8:30pm Tickets : £ 8 /£ 6
In July 1961 , Yuri Gagarin came to London . The Russian cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and handsome embodiment of modern communism .
But who were they , these ever hopeful , defiant and historically doomed people ? Like a non-magical version of the wizards of J . K . Rowling ’ s world , they lived secretly with and parallel to the non-communist majority , sometimes persecuted , sometimes ignored , but carrying on their own ways and traditions .
Party Animals is a memoir of early life among communists . David found himself studying the old secret service files , uncovering the unspoken shame and fears that provided the unconscious background to his own existence .
David Aaronovitch is an award-winning journalist , who has worked in radio , television and newspapers in the UK since the 1980s . His first book , Paddling to
Jerusalem , won the Madoc prize for travel literature in 2001 and his second , Voodoo
Histories , was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller .