Thanks to your support, One Little Goat has great news from the year behind and for the one ahead. Read and see all about it below, and if you can, please support One Little Goat's programming with a tax-deductible donation. As a registered charity, we depend on individual donations to realize productions, and we want to thank you for helping us make them happen. See you in 2024! In the meantime, wishing happy holidays, a healthy new year, and peace, —Adam Seelig, Artistic Director
OUR BIGGEST PROJECT TO DATE…
…filming all 17 chapters of James Joyce’s monumental final novel, Finnegans Wake, in a first-of-its-kind filmed audio book, is well under way and gaining momentum.
Chapter 1 is complete and screened to enthusiastic audiences at the Toronto Irish Film Festival at TIFF Lightbox, Bloomsday Film Festival Dublin & European Union Film Festival
l-r: Joyce Centre Director Darina Gallagher, Harte, Lord Mayor of Dublin Caroline Conroy
“Finnegans Wake” at EU Film Festival
Richard Harte & Adam Seelig, Toronto Irish Film Festival at TIFF Lightbox
Praising the Dublin premiere, noted culture critic for The Irish Voice, Cahir O’Doherty, writes: “Actor Richard 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, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.”
RTE Irish National Television featured the film, and numerous media warmly welcomed our debut, including the Irish Echo, WBAI New York (Malachy McCourt), CIUT Toronto (donna g), Pa Sheehan, Irish Radio Canada and more.
Thanks to a travel grant from the Ontario Arts Council, Harte and Director Adam Seelig attended the film’s Irish premiere at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.
Following the success of Chapter 1, the Emigrant Support Programme from the Government of Ireland has renewed and increased their funding for our forthcoming films of Chapters 2-4.
Shot with a live audience at Noonan’s Irish Pub in Toronto on 26 June, Chapter 2 is in the final stages of editing. Chapter 3 has wrapped, with editing to begin in January; and Chapter 4 is slated to shoot in early 2024.
Save the date(ish) for March 2024, when One Little Goat returns to the Toronto Irish Film Festival to screen “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 2.” We will share details with you soon.
CLAUDE GAUVREAU'S VAMPIRE ONLINE
Asymptote, the leading site for world literature in translation, recently published scenes from Ray Ellenwood’s translation of Claude Gauvreau’s radical 1949 libretto The Vampire and the Nymphomaniac (commissioned and published by One Little Goat in 2023). Visit Asymptote to read the excerpts for free as well as Adam Seelig’s introduction and the original French as read by Thierry Bissonnette.
And the 2023 Nobel goes to…
l-r: Michael Blake, Dwight McFee & Stacie Steadman, "Someone is Going to Come"
…Norwegian poet and playwright Jon Fosse! Those who have been following and attending One Little Goat’s productions will remember our 2009 English Canadian Premiere of Fosse’s best known play, Someone is Going to Come, in a new English translation by Harry Lane and Adam Seelig (hailed in the Globe & Mail as “21st-century Beckett”).
For those interested in the script of the translation, please email us: onelittlegoattc@gmail.com. For Fosse’s Nobel Lecture, click here.
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As an official charity, One Little Goat, North America’s only company dedicated to poetic theatre, depends on individual donations to make productions possible. Your financial support is tax-deductible and greatly appreciated! Our office is volunteer-run, so 100% of your donation goes directly to programming.
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