Thanks to your support, One Little Goat has great news from 2024 and for and the year ahead. Read all about it below, and if you can, please support One Little Goat's programming with a tax-deductible donation. As a registered charity in Canada and the USA, we depend on individual donations to realize productions. For over 20 years we have produced poetic theatre of the highest calibre for audiences of all ages, and we couldn’t make our productions happen without your help.
See you in 2025! In the meantime, wishing happy holidays, a healthy new year, and peace, —Adam Seelig, Artistic Director
OUR BIGGEST PROJECT TO DATE…
…is growing, as we film all 17 chapters of James Joyce’s monumental final novel, Finnegans Wake, in a first-of-its-kind filmed audio book.
Chapter 1 film (86 min, 4K) – Following festival screenings in 2023, Chapter 1 has now launched on YouTube. Highly praised in the Irish Voice, it is receiving enthusiastic responses from new audience members in the USA, Canada, Ireland, England, France, Ukraine, Japan and Australia. Enjoy.
Chapter 2 film (50 min, 4K) – screened in 2024 to enthusiastic audiences at the:
Adam Seelig at the EU Film Festival (2024-11-27).
Toronto Irish Film Festival at TIFF in March
National Irish Canadian Cultural Centre and James Joyce Association of Ottawa in May for Wake’s 85th anniversary
Bloomsday Film Festival Dublin in June
European Union Film Festival in November.
We launch Chapter 2 on YouTube in the new year.
Richard Harte at the Ottawa River and Canadian Parliament (2024-05-06).
Harte & Seelig at the National Irish Canadian Cultural Centre Ottawa (2024-05-06).
Harte & Rosemary O'Brien, President of James Joyce Association of Ottawa (2024-05-06).
Chapter 3 film (81 min.) – Save the date-ish for March 2025, when we return to the Toronto Irish Film Festival at TIFF to screen “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3”. Details coming soon.
Chapter 4 film (90 min.) – shot with a live audience at Type Books on Queen Street in Toronto, Ch04 is in post production. Chapter 5 film (70 min.) – filmed at the magnificent Fisher Rare Books Library in Toronto, Ch05 has wrapped. Chapter 6 film (130 min.) – shot at Fred Harte’s home (Fred is Richard Harte’s uncle) in the seaside town of Rush, County Dublin, Ireland, Ch06 has wrapped.
Shooting in 2025 – chapters 7 and 8 are slated to shoot in the new year. Stay tuned…
Cinematographer Luke Brabazon (Wake Ch06), Drumanagh Martello Tower near Rush, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme from the Government of Ireland.
PODCAST LAUNCH
On May 4, 2024, the 85th anniversary of Finnegans Wake, we launched our Wake Podcast with introductions by Adam Seelig and readings by Richard Harte. Two chapters and ten episodes in, the series is reaching new and returning listeners globally. Today (2024-12-12) we release Episode 11. Tune in via Apple/Spotify/etc. or at onelittlegoat.org/podcast.
(TAYLOR) SWIFT & JOYCE
“Wake It Off” — Tommy MacKay of Daily Reckless in Scotland combines Richard Harte’s reading of “the prankquean” with Taylor (not Jonathan) Swift’s “Shake It Off.” For real. Listen online.
NOBEL LAUREATE FOSSE ONLINE
Asymptote, the leading site for world literature in translation, recently published a scene from Harry Lane and Adam Seelig’s translation of Someone Is Going to Come by 2023 Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse. The play received its Canadian Premiere from One Little Goat in 2009 — praised in the Globe & Mail as “21st-century Beckett.” Read in Asymptote.
CLAUDE GAUVREAU AT 100
On August 19, 2025, we join colleagues in Quebec to celebrate the centennial of Montreal’s revolutionary poet and playwright, Claude Gauvreau (1925-1971), whose magnum opus, The Charge of the Expormidable Moose, received its English Language World Premiere from One Little Goat in 2013 — hailed in the Globe & Mail as “a tour de force” — and whose Vampire and the Nymphomaniac we published in a bilingual edition with Ray Ellenwood’s translation in 2022. We will keep you posted on details.
ONE LITTLE GOAT IS A CHARITY
King James Bible (1611), Finnegans Wake Chapter 5, Fisher Rare Books Library, Toronto, 2024.
“Toronto's enterprising One Little Goat” (NYTimes) is North America's only theatre company dedicated to poetic theatre. As a registered charity in the USA and Canada, we depend on individual donations to bring productions to fruition. Thank you for supporting our vital, original programming. Our office is volunteer-run, so 100% of your donation goes directly to programming.
