Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake ( 1967 )

Overview

Based on the stage play Passages from Finnegans Wake, itself based on random passages from Finnegans Wake, Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation is a comical, avant-garde kaleidoscope about a man named Finnegan who dreams about his wake and then wakes up from his dream.

Top Cast

Martin J. Kelley

Finnegan

Peter Haskell

Shem

Jane Reilly

Anna Livia

Page Johnson

Shaun

John V. Kelleher

Commentator

Ray Flanagan

Young Shem

Maura Pryor

Young Iseult

Jo Jo Slavin

Young Shaun

Leonard Frey

Celebrant

Joseph Maher

Celebrant

Paddy Croft

Celebrant