Bringing Dubliners to life
DUBLINERS is the perfect collection of short stories. You couldn’t think of a more daunting book to put on stage. “Actually, you could,” says Michael West, who’s doing just that. Finnegans Wake. Or Ulysses. Dubliners is the easy one. What appealed to us was that it is the gateway drug to Joyce.”
West is one half of the Corn Exchange Theatre Company’s creative team. The other is his wife, Annie Ryan, who founded the company in 1995 and who is directing Dubliners, which opens the Dublin Theatre Festival on Sept 27. A festival whose tagline is ‘Your City, Your Stories’ really couldn’t have a better curtain raiser.
