JOYCED! takes us on a tour de force of Joycean Dublin, bringing the audience through the year which Joyce would later make famous in Ulysses.


A one-woman show performed by Katie O'Kelly that through multi-character performance (22 at least!) and magical word play, depicts the people who were of most importance to Joyce: his father and his cronies, Oliver St. John Gogarty, the tenor John McCormack, Alfred Hunter (the man who would later become Bloom in Ulysses) and, of course, Nora herself.


JOYCED! looks back at 1904 through the eyes of JoJo, a stallholder in Dublin's Rathmines Market, with a dangerous obsession for all things Joycean.


JoJo careers like a person possessed through the full gamut of 1904 James Joyce:

* his battles with his mad dad

* his bronze medal win for singing in the Feis

* a crazed night of gunfire in the Sandycove Tower

* his rescue from Monto mayhem by the man who became Bloom

* and his passion for Nora Barnacle and their fabled walk on 16th June


Katie O'Kelly is the daughter of Donal O'Kelly, who originally produced JIMMY JOYCED!, a remarkably similar show which was premiered at the Café Theatre in the 1990's, and now returns as a second generation theatrical feast to mark the Dublin Libraries ONE CITY ONE BOOK FESTIVAL for the month of April, which this year is celebrating Dubliners by James Joyce. Bewley's Café Theatre is delighted to mark the celebrations with such an auspicious offering.





PLEASE NOTE: We do not post out tickets, but will have a record of your booking at the door. The shows start at 1.10pm (doors open from 12.50pm). Please arrive no later than 1pm. Thank you.

All prices listed are show only. Lunch is available (soup and hearty brown brown) for an additional €4 on the door.