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Bewley’s Cafe Theatre is proud to present as part of the Bloomsday Festival 2025 Counterparts & A Little Cloud from James Joyce’s Dubliners. These two short stories from Joyce’s debut work are vivid ‘slices of life’ in early 20th century Dublin, revealing a society in paralysis, desperately awaiting change. Stunningly accompanied by live music,…
Bewley’s Cafe Theatre is proud to present as part of the Bloomsday Festival 2025 Counterparts & A Little Cloud from James Joyce’s Dubliners. These two short stories from Joyce’s debut work are vivid ‘slices of life’ in early 20th century Dublin, revealing a society in paralysis, desperately awaiting change.
Stunningly accompanied by live music, we follow a pair of Dublin characters portrayed in immaculately detailed scenes: In “Counterparts,” a frustrated law clerk is determined to have a big night’s drinking, while in “A Little Cloud,” a sensitive soul is thrown by a meeting with an old university friend back from London. At once funny and tragic, the stories are populated with an array of colourful characters who, despite the bowler hats and Edwardian collars, remain entirely contemporary.
‘lighting up the genius of Joyce’s Dubliners’ Sunday Independent
‘beautifully dramatised and served up as a lunchtime treat… a perfect hour’s entertainment’ Irish Independent
‘two superbly articulated performances’ The Arts Review
‘a superb dramatised introduction to one of the greatest short-story collections in world literature’ Frank McNally, The Irish Times
