The Award Winning
Shem The Penman…
Revisited
Written & Performed by Paddy Scully
The Black Box
Friday 10 June – 8pm
Tickets: £10
An entertainment based on the life & work
of James Joyce. The setting is Switzerland
and Joyce is putting the finishing touches
to his latest – but an interfering world war is
jeopardising its publication!
In an extraordinary, often comic, stream
of consciousness, Dublin, its ghosts and
apparitions are evoked giving our hero a
hard time in his Zurich refuge; the gossiping
Anna Livia washerwomen, dirty Bloom,
Stephen Dedalus, Gabriel, Gerty McDowell
and the mob in Barney Kiernan’s pub. All are
words to him….words…words…and more
words’
This award winning show has been
performed widely, from the UK to Europe
and the USA.
“Scully expands himself into a whole
pubful of people. Great skill, very funny
indeed” Times Literary Supplement
12
“His evocation of the life and times
of James Joyce is a truly remarkable
performance” The Scotsman
David Aaronovitch
With Stephen Walker
Crescent Arts Centre
Friday 10 June – 8:30pm
Tickets: £8/£6
In July 1961, Yuri Gagarin came to London.
The Russian cosmonaut was everything the
Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular
and handsome embodiment of modern
communism.
But who were they, these ever hopeful,
defiant and historically doomed people?
Like a non-magical version of the wizards
of J. K. Rowling’s world, they lived secretly
with and parallel to the non-communist
majority, sometimes persecuted, sometimes
ignored, but carrying on their own ways
and traditions.
Party Animals is a memoir of early life
among communists. David found himself
studying the old secret service files,
uncovering the unspoken shame and fears
that provided the unconscious background
to his own existence.
David Aaronovitch is an award-winning
journalist, who has worked in radio,
television and newspapers in the UK
since the 1980s. His first book, Paddling to
Jerusalem, won the Madoc prize for travel
literature in 2001 and his second, Voodoo
Histories, was a Sunday Times top ten
bestseller.
Saturday
11th June