Taking advantage of the writer’s work moving out of copyright, Frank McGuinness’s adaptation of the short story will be the first time Joyce has featured at the national theatre since a 1973 production of Exiles.
With a cast including Stanley Townsend, Derbhle Crotty, Rosaleen Linehan and Lorcan Cranitch, and directed by Joe Dowling, its Christmas run will be the highlight of the theatre’s new season.
Joyce features as part of a “Great Irish Writers” season that includes Seán O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars, which will be performed at the O’Reilly Theatre while asbestos is removed from the Abbey.
An adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray will follow October’s Dublin Theatre Festival.
The Peacock theatre will host two new plays between October and December: Shibari by Gary Duggan; and Quietly by Owen McCafferty.
