58 min
Richard Harte, Irish-Canadian actor Irish in Toronto
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- Society & Culture
Today, I’ll be chatting with Richard Harte. Richard is an actor here in Toronto. Born in Dublin, he and his mother emigrated to Canada when he was six years old, eventually settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Amongst many things, we discuss Richard’s identity as an Irish-Canadian and how that has contributed to his acting career, especially playing Irish characters.
Adam Seelig, the Artistic Director of One Little Goat Theatre Company, put me in contact with Richard. Last week at the 2023 Toronto Irish Film Festival, Adam and Richard’s creation, Finnegan’s Wake Chapter 1 was screened. “Finnegans Wake Chapter 1″ captures the dynamic and comedic cadences of James Joyce’s final novel as read by Richard Harte. Shot with a live audience in Toronto, this marks both the first ‘audio-video book’ of this extraordinary novel and the first movie in One Little Goat’s plan to film all 17 chapters of Finnegans Wake.
Today, I’ll be chatting with Richard Harte. Richard is an actor here in Toronto. Born in Dublin, he and his mother emigrated to Canada when he was six years old, eventually settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Amongst many things, we discuss Richard’s identity as an Irish-Canadian and how that has contributed to his acting career, especially playing Irish characters.
Adam Seelig, the Artistic Director of One Little Goat Theatre Company, put me in contact with Richard. Last week at the 2023 Toronto Irish Film Festival, Adam and Richard’s creation, Finnegan’s Wake Chapter 1 was screened. “Finnegans Wake Chapter 1″ captures the dynamic and comedic cadences of James Joyce’s final novel as read by Richard Harte. Shot with a live audience in Toronto, this marks both the first ‘audio-video book’ of this extraordinary novel and the first movie in One Little Goat’s plan to film all 17 chapters of Finnegans Wake.
58 min