James Joyce, one of the most provocative and influential writers of all time, had his creativity, imagination, and desire transformed by Nora Barnacle.Himself and Nora, a new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Brielle will play the Minetta Lane Theatre 18 Minetta Lane, between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street beginning on May 14th. Directed by Michael Bush, produced by Cherie King and executive produced by R. Erin Craig, Himself and Nora will officially open on June 6th.
- 5/5/2016
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway stars, producers and the Company of Jonathan Brielle's much acclaimed new musical, Himself and Nora about the tumultuous romance of famed writer James Joyce and his muse, lover and most ardent supporter, chambermaid Nora Barnacle, gathered to celebrate the release of the album produced by John Yap for noted theatrical music label Jay Records. Scroll down for photos from the event...
- 6/27/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This week, Jay Productions Ltd released the original cast album of Jonathan Brielle's critically acclaimed musical 'Himself and Nora' about the tumultuous romance of famed writer James Joyce and his muse, lover and most ardent supporter, chambermaid nm0055366 autoNora Barnacle[/link]. After it's success at the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival in July, 2012 at The Theater at St. Clements, Michael Bush's critically production was then presented last season at Hamilton Stage in Rahway, New Jersey.
- 6/13/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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Donald Sutherland wants to stir revolt. A real revolt. A youth-led uprising against injustice that will overturn the Us as we know it and usher in a kinder, better way. "I hope that they will take action because it's getting drastic in this country." Drone strikes. Corporate tax dodging. Racism. The Keystone oil pipeline. Denying food stamps to "starving Americans". It's all going to pot. "It's not right. It's not right."
Millennials need awakening from slumber. "You know the young people of this society have not moved in the last 30 years." With the exception of Occupy, a minority movement, passivity reigns. "They have been consumed with telephones." The voice hardens. "Tweeting."
We are high up in a Four Seasons hotel overlooking Beverly Hills, sunlight glinting off mansions and boutiques below,...
- 11/19/2013
- by Rory Carroll
- The Guardian - Film News
Today, July 9, at the New York Musical Theater Festival, director Michael Bush brings to life Jonathan Brielles Himself and Nora, a musical tale of one of the greatest romances of the 20th Century -Himself...the brilliant and hard drinking Irish novelist James Joyce, Nora...the passionate chambermaid Nora Barnacle who became his lover, his partner, and his muse for 29 years. In this bawdy and funny, uplifting, and melodic new musical, Himself and Nora sings the story of one of the great love affairs of the time. A love which resulted in their exile from their beloved Ireland, the condemnation of the Catholic church, and ultimately some of the greatest writing of the 20th century.
- 7/9/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
On July 9, at the New York Musical Theater Festival, director Michael Bush brings to life Jonathan Brielles Himself and Nora, a musical tale of one of the greatest romances of the 20th Century -Himself...the brilliant and hard drinking Irish novelist James Joyce, Nora...the passionate chambermaid Nora Barnacle who became his lover, his partner, and his muse for 29 years. In this bawdy and funny, uplifting, and melodic new musical, Himself and Nora sings the story of one of the great love affairs of the time. A love which resulted in their exile from their beloved Ireland, the condemnation of the Catholic church, and ultimately some of the greatest writing of the 20th century.
- 6/18/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
More a gallery of beautifully shot cinematic tableaus from the lives of turn-of-the-20th-century rebel lovers Nora Barnacle and James Joyce than a satisfying -- or even comprehensible -- biographical exercise, this Irish/Italian/German co-production arrives with no fanfare in a few local theaters for a perfunctory release via Andora Pictures.
Directed and co-written by Pat Murphy, "Nora" has a tough time, like most of its ilk, making a difficult genius like Joyce (even when played by Ewan McGregor) into an irresistible movie character. Murphy co-wrote the script, based on the biography by Brenda Maddox, with Gerard Stembridge.
While focusing on Susan Lynch ("Waking Ned Devine") as Joyce's lifelong love -- a Galway native who comes from an abusive home life and meets him in Dublin -- is a promising angle coming from a woman filmmaker, "Nora" is still a muddy tale of sex, love, obsession, jealousy, cruelty and abandonment that can keep one at a distance.
The film's atmosphere, including the terrific period sets and costumes, is a real turn-on, in a moody kind of way, and hotel maid Nora and budding writer Joyce's first late-night stroll, which leads to a lusty embrace in the shadows, is a racy start to their affair. She's the take-charge type, and he falls in love instantly. Because of his frustration over not being published in Ireland, a foreign job offer and her "secret" past, they move to Trieste, Italy, and live like a married couple.
Their landlady kicks them out when Nora becomes pregnant, but Joyce's erratic behavior is the real problem. Like a drunk and his moods, Nora and Joyce's love for each other shifts from bitter scenes of verbal fighting to genuinely warm moments when drinking and singing bring them together. She has plenty of untapped love and affection but is fatefully attached to a man who pushes her away.
With a few visits to the sunny seashore and many train trips, "Nora" spans several years and reaches a high point when the lead recalls a former lover while watching a silent Italian movie and tells Joyce. He turns it into the short story "The Dead", and she is deeply hurt. Indeed, Joyce seems to relish punishing her with insinuations that she's a tramp and even prodding her to have an affair with an innocently friendly newspaper editor (Roberto Citran).
During one stretch of separation, the lovers write erotic letters to each other, and the scenario indulges in a flurry of masturbation scenes, but even two children, peacekeeping missions by Joyce's younger brother (Peter McDonald) and Joyce's finally choosing to stop believing Nora detractors like Cosgrave (Daragh Kelly) are not enough to end hostilities. By the film's upbeat end, the viewer has learned a little about one of the world's great writers and earned a pint to unwind afterward.
NORA
Andora Pictures
Natural Nylon Entertainment
Director: Pat Murphy
Screenwriters: Pat Murphy, Gerard Stembridge
Producers: Bradley Adams, Damon Bryant, Tracey Seaward
Executive producer: Guy Collins
Director of photography: Jean Francois Robin
Production designer: Alan Macdonald
Editor: Pia Di Ciaula
Costume designer: Consolata Boyle
Music: Stanislas Syrewicz
Color/stereo
Cast:
Nora Barnacle: Susan Lynch
James Joyce: Ewan McGregor
Stanislas Joyce: Peter McDonald
Roberto Prezioso: Roberto Citran
Cosgrave: Daragh Kelly
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Directed and co-written by Pat Murphy, "Nora" has a tough time, like most of its ilk, making a difficult genius like Joyce (even when played by Ewan McGregor) into an irresistible movie character. Murphy co-wrote the script, based on the biography by Brenda Maddox, with Gerard Stembridge.
While focusing on Susan Lynch ("Waking Ned Devine") as Joyce's lifelong love -- a Galway native who comes from an abusive home life and meets him in Dublin -- is a promising angle coming from a woman filmmaker, "Nora" is still a muddy tale of sex, love, obsession, jealousy, cruelty and abandonment that can keep one at a distance.
The film's atmosphere, including the terrific period sets and costumes, is a real turn-on, in a moody kind of way, and hotel maid Nora and budding writer Joyce's first late-night stroll, which leads to a lusty embrace in the shadows, is a racy start to their affair. She's the take-charge type, and he falls in love instantly. Because of his frustration over not being published in Ireland, a foreign job offer and her "secret" past, they move to Trieste, Italy, and live like a married couple.
Their landlady kicks them out when Nora becomes pregnant, but Joyce's erratic behavior is the real problem. Like a drunk and his moods, Nora and Joyce's love for each other shifts from bitter scenes of verbal fighting to genuinely warm moments when drinking and singing bring them together. She has plenty of untapped love and affection but is fatefully attached to a man who pushes her away.
With a few visits to the sunny seashore and many train trips, "Nora" spans several years and reaches a high point when the lead recalls a former lover while watching a silent Italian movie and tells Joyce. He turns it into the short story "The Dead", and she is deeply hurt. Indeed, Joyce seems to relish punishing her with insinuations that she's a tramp and even prodding her to have an affair with an innocently friendly newspaper editor (Roberto Citran).
During one stretch of separation, the lovers write erotic letters to each other, and the scenario indulges in a flurry of masturbation scenes, but even two children, peacekeeping missions by Joyce's younger brother (Peter McDonald) and Joyce's finally choosing to stop believing Nora detractors like Cosgrave (Daragh Kelly) are not enough to end hostilities. By the film's upbeat end, the viewer has learned a little about one of the world's great writers and earned a pint to unwind afterward.
NORA
Andora Pictures
Natural Nylon Entertainment
Director: Pat Murphy
Screenwriters: Pat Murphy, Gerard Stembridge
Producers: Bradley Adams, Damon Bryant, Tracey Seaward
Executive producer: Guy Collins
Director of photography: Jean Francois Robin
Production designer: Alan Macdonald
Editor: Pia Di Ciaula
Costume designer: Consolata Boyle
Music: Stanislas Syrewicz
Color/stereo
Cast:
Nora Barnacle: Susan Lynch
James Joyce: Ewan McGregor
Stanislas Joyce: Peter McDonald
Roberto Prezioso: Roberto Citran
Cosgrave: Daragh Kelly
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
More a gallery of beautifully shot cinematic tableaus from the lives of turn-of-the-20th-century rebel lovers Nora Barnacle and James Joyce than a satisfying -- or even comprehensible -- biographical exercise, this Irish/Italian/German co-production arrives with no fanfare in a few local theaters for a perfunctory release via Andora Pictures.
Directed and co-written by Pat Murphy, "Nora" has a tough time, like most of its ilk, making a difficult genius like Joyce (even when played by Ewan McGregor) into an irresistible movie character. Murphy co-wrote the script, based on the biography by Brenda Maddox, with Gerard Stembridge.
While focusing on Susan Lynch ("Waking Ned Devine") as Joyce's lifelong love -- a Galway native who comes from an abusive home life and meets him in Dublin -- is a promising angle coming from a woman filmmaker, "Nora" is still a muddy tale of sex, love, obsession, jealousy, cruelty and abandonment that can keep one at a distance.
The film's atmosphere, including the terrific period sets and costumes, is a real turn-on, in a moody kind of way, and hotel maid Nora and budding writer Joyce's first late-night stroll, which leads to a lusty embrace in the shadows, is a racy start to their affair. She's the take-charge type, and he falls in love instantly. Because of his frustration over not being published in Ireland, a foreign job offer and her "secret" past, they move to Trieste, Italy, and live like a married couple.
Their landlady kicks them out when Nora becomes pregnant, but Joyce's erratic behavior is the real problem. Like a drunk and his moods, Nora and Joyce's love for each other shifts from bitter scenes of verbal fighting to genuinely warm moments when drinking and singing bring them together. She has plenty of untapped love and affection but is fatefully attached to a man who pushes her away.
With a few visits to the sunny seashore and many train trips, "Nora" spans several years and reaches a high point when the lead recalls a former lover while watching a silent Italian movie and tells Joyce. He turns it into the short story "The Dead", and she is deeply hurt. Indeed, Joyce seems to relish punishing her with insinuations that she's a tramp and even prodding her to have an affair with an innocently friendly newspaper editor (Roberto Citran).
During one stretch of separation, the lovers write erotic letters to each other, and the scenario indulges in a flurry of masturbation scenes, but even two children, peacekeeping missions by Joyce's younger brother (Peter McDonald) and Joyce's finally choosing to stop believing Nora detractors like Cosgrave (Daragh Kelly) are not enough to end hostilities. By the film's upbeat end, the viewer has learned a little about one of the world's great writers and earned a pint to unwind afterward.
NORA
Andora Pictures
Natural Nylon Entertainment
Director: Pat Murphy
Screenwriters: Pat Murphy, Gerard Stembridge
Producers: Bradley Adams, Damon Bryant, Tracey Seaward
Executive producer: Guy Collins
Director of photography: Jean Francois Robin
Production designer: Alan Macdonald
Editor: Pia Di Ciaula
Costume designer: Consolata Boyle
Music: Stanislas Syrewicz
Color/stereo
Cast:
Nora Barnacle: Susan Lynch
James Joyce: Ewan McGregor
Stanislas Joyce: Peter McDonald
Roberto Prezioso: Roberto Citran
Cosgrave: Daragh Kelly
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Directed and co-written by Pat Murphy, "Nora" has a tough time, like most of its ilk, making a difficult genius like Joyce (even when played by Ewan McGregor) into an irresistible movie character. Murphy co-wrote the script, based on the biography by Brenda Maddox, with Gerard Stembridge.
While focusing on Susan Lynch ("Waking Ned Devine") as Joyce's lifelong love -- a Galway native who comes from an abusive home life and meets him in Dublin -- is a promising angle coming from a woman filmmaker, "Nora" is still a muddy tale of sex, love, obsession, jealousy, cruelty and abandonment that can keep one at a distance.
The film's atmosphere, including the terrific period sets and costumes, is a real turn-on, in a moody kind of way, and hotel maid Nora and budding writer Joyce's first late-night stroll, which leads to a lusty embrace in the shadows, is a racy start to their affair. She's the take-charge type, and he falls in love instantly. Because of his frustration over not being published in Ireland, a foreign job offer and her "secret" past, they move to Trieste, Italy, and live like a married couple.
Their landlady kicks them out when Nora becomes pregnant, but Joyce's erratic behavior is the real problem. Like a drunk and his moods, Nora and Joyce's love for each other shifts from bitter scenes of verbal fighting to genuinely warm moments when drinking and singing bring them together. She has plenty of untapped love and affection but is fatefully attached to a man who pushes her away.
With a few visits to the sunny seashore and many train trips, "Nora" spans several years and reaches a high point when the lead recalls a former lover while watching a silent Italian movie and tells Joyce. He turns it into the short story "The Dead", and she is deeply hurt. Indeed, Joyce seems to relish punishing her with insinuations that she's a tramp and even prodding her to have an affair with an innocently friendly newspaper editor (Roberto Citran).
During one stretch of separation, the lovers write erotic letters to each other, and the scenario indulges in a flurry of masturbation scenes, but even two children, peacekeeping missions by Joyce's younger brother (Peter McDonald) and Joyce's finally choosing to stop believing Nora detractors like Cosgrave (Daragh Kelly) are not enough to end hostilities. By the film's upbeat end, the viewer has learned a little about one of the world's great writers and earned a pint to unwind afterward.
NORA
Andora Pictures
Natural Nylon Entertainment
Director: Pat Murphy
Screenwriters: Pat Murphy, Gerard Stembridge
Producers: Bradley Adams, Damon Bryant, Tracey Seaward
Executive producer: Guy Collins
Director of photography: Jean Francois Robin
Production designer: Alan Macdonald
Editor: Pia Di Ciaula
Costume designer: Consolata Boyle
Music: Stanislas Syrewicz
Color/stereo
Cast:
Nora Barnacle: Susan Lynch
James Joyce: Ewan McGregor
Stanislas Joyce: Peter McDonald
Roberto Prezioso: Roberto Citran
Cosgrave: Daragh Kelly
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
EWAN McGREGOR has found the perfect holiday hideaway in Trieste after spending last summer there filming new movie Nora (1999). The Trainspotting (1996) actor followed his literary hero James Joyce's footsteps in the Italian city and found himself falling in love with the place - and its leading tenor. McGregor plays Joyce, who left his native Dublin, Ireland, to seek inspiration in Italy with his lover Nora Barnacle He says, "I found this wonderful place. I can really see why Joyce liked the town - you can really feel him there. It's very cosmopolitan... It's a great town, great places to visit. There's this one little tiny restaurant where all the crew went and one of the guys who goes there all the time is the head tenor at the Trieste theatre... While we were filming we'd go there, finish dinner, clear back the tables and start singing and dancing. It's brilliant."...
- 4/18/2000
- WENN
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