James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

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James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Join us for James Joyce's divine and delirious comedy, Finnegans Wake, read by Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte, with introductions by director Adam Seelig. From 2024 to 2029, One Little Goat Theatre Company will film and record all 17 chapters (~30 Hours) of Finnegans Wake before live audiences in various locations, screening/releasing them along along the way and completing the entire book by its 90th birthday, May 4, 2029. “Harte has found a way to crack the private code and maintain the original voltage… of one of the most funny and challenging novels of the 20th century.” —Irish Voice

  1. FEB 6

    Ep.015: 111 Insults (p. 69:5-74:19, End of Ch03)

    https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 69 to 74 to conclude Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p. 69:5-74:19) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: cloud and ‘spit-fog’ at start of Ch03 becomes rain at end, “recirculation,” Bob Marley’s “Running Away,” Twilight Zone ‘the enemy is us,’ Earwicker as his own worst enemy, The Hole in the Wall Pub near Phoenix Park, 1798 Irish Rebellion song “By Memory Inspired,” Dublin lock-out of 1913, HCE locked in his “archicitadel,” muckraker Herr Betreffender, fall of man, Betreffender’s 111 insults, dialogue of God and Abraham/“Allprohome,” Mel Brooks History of the World, Dublin anthropomorphized as HCE’s body, rain, sleep, synopsis.  Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, fweet.org William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

    32 min

  2. JAN 23

    Ep.014: reel world! (p. 63:20-69:4)

    https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 63 to 69 to continue Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p. 63:20-69:4) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: “the reel world,” “The Keel Row” song, James Joyce and cinema, film, Dublin’s first movie theatre the Volta, Sergei Eisenstein, “a strawberry frolic,” cherchez la femme, ménage à trois, Peaches and Daddy Browning scandal, Benny Hill, synopsis. Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, fweet.org William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Cited: Ronald Bergan. Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict (1997). New York, Arcade, 2016.

    29 min

  3. JAN 9

    Ep.013: I dream therefore I become (p. 58:23-63:19)

    https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 58 to to 63 to continue Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p. 58:23-63:19) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: “I dream, therefore I become,” “strongers” vs. “softsies,” reportage, 20 Dubliners, HCE as Banksy, Buddhism motif, Karen Armstrong’s Buddha biography, “self” as process in flux, identity as changing stream, Heraclitus, Descartes, Nora Barnacle, Book of the Dead, “the real Us!”, synopsis. Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake. Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, fweet.org William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Cited: Karen Armstrong, Buddha. Toronto, Penguin, 2001.

    26 min

  4. 2024-12-26

    Ep.012: This river I step in (p. 53:7-58:22)

    https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 53 to 58 to continue Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (pages 53:7-58:22) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Eldon Garnet sculpture on Don River Toronto, Heraclitus river aphorism, becoming, Fred Wah on elusive meaning, Earwicker and language running away, Casaconcordia, League of Nations, United Nations, polyglotism, Babel, “Irish Jaunting Car,” Phoenix Park, Cad confrontation, who is Earwicker?, Charles Dodgson and Alice Liddell, “strongers” vs. “softies,” , synopsis. Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 48-53. Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, fweet.org. William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Cited: Fred Wah, Music at the Heart of Thinking. Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2020.

    36 min

  5. 2024-12-12

    Ep.011: Running Away (p. 48:1-53:6, start of Ch03)

    https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 48 to 53 to begin Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (pages 48:1-53:6) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Earwicker running and hiding from gossip, Bob Marley’s “Running Away,” “perhaps,” vertical and horizontal cycles, Earwicker as his own worst enemy, “The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly” possibly both about and by Earwicker, where and who is Earwicker, Irish nationalist Charles Parnell, “Chest Cee!”, poisonous cloud, ‘spit-fog,’ Monty Python’s “Killer Joke,” “his husband” and other phrases, Cad confrontation redux, seven-items-of-clothing motif, regifugium persecutorum, TV newsreel, Wyndham Lewis, synopsis. Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 48-53. Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977. William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982. Cited: “Running Away,” Bob Marley and the Wailers, Kaya, Island Studios, London, 1978. “The Funniest Joke in the World,” Monty Python’s Flying Circus, BBC, 1969.

    35 min

  6. 2024-10-10

    Ep.010: Ballad of Persse O’Reilly (p. 44:7-47:34, End of Ch02)

    https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte performing pages 44 to 47 featuring the song, “The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly,” to conclude Chapter 2 of Joyce’s last novel, with piano accompaniment and an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s performance (pages 44:7-47:34) was recorded with a live audience at Noonan’s Irish Pub in Toronto on 26 June 2023. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and USA. If you’d like to support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Jobina Sitoh (Stage Management); Adam Seelig (Director). Thanks to our wonderful live audience at Noonan’s. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto and to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening!  Mentioned: “The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly,” Hosty the scandalmongering busker, ‘perce-oreille’ is ‘earwig’ in French, Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap battle, scapegoat, “Carnival of Venice” melody, Paganini, Seelig and Harte arrangement of “Ballad of PO’R,” stutter, synopsis. Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 44-47. Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2016. John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

    20 min

  7. 2024-09-26

    Episode 009: Hosty the Busker (p. 39:14-44:24)

    https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 39 to 44 to continue Chapter 2 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (pages 39:14-44:24) was recorded with a live audience at Noonan’s Irish Pub in Toronto on 26 June 2023. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and USA. If you’d like to support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Jobina Sitoh (Stage Management); Adam Seelig (Director). Thanks to our wonderful live audience at Noonan’s. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto and to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: bpNichol, more glosses on “riverrun”, The Liberties, Hosty the scandalmongering busker, Bruegel, Where’s Waldo, Hosty’s ballad on HCE spreads across Ireland, third ‘thunderword’ in Finnegans Wak, synopsis. Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 39-44.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2016. John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

    25 min

  8. 2024-09-12

    Episode 008: Cad confrontation (p. 34:29-39:13)

    https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 34 to 39 to continue Chapter 2 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (pages 34:29-39:13) was recorded with a live audience at Noonan’s Irish Pub in Toronto on 26 June 2023. For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast. “James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and USA. If you’d like to support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list. To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you. This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Jobina Sitoh (Stage Management); Adam Seelig (Director). Thanks to our wonderful live audience at Noonan’s. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto and to Production Consultants  Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Emily Dickinson, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”, HCE rumours, fiction, HCE’s encounter/confrontation with the cad, Dublin’s Phoenix Park, stuttering motif, language of birds and love, gossip relay, stuttering as early speech and signifying guilt, Giambattista Vico, cycle of three eras, first ‘thunderword’, Charles Parnell and Charles Dodgson, Adam and Eve, original sin, synopsis.  Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 34-39.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose. Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2016. John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog. Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

    29 min
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Join us for James Joyce's divine and delirious comedy, Finnegans Wake, read by Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte, with introductions by director Adam Seelig. From 2024 to 2029, One Little Goat Theatre Company will film and record all 17 chapters (~30 Hours) of Finnegans Wake before live audiences in various locations, screening/releasing them along along the way and completing the entire book by its 90th birthday, May 4, 2029. “Harte has found a way to crack the private code and maintain the original voltage… of one of the most funny and challenging novels of the 20th century.” —Irish Voice

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