Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day
Written & Directed by: Sharon Fogarty
Additional Writing: Lee Breuer
Set & Lighting Design: Jim Clayburgh
Music by: Carter Burwell
Projection Design: Julie Archer
Choreographed by: J'aime Morrison
Featuring: Ruth Maleczech
New York-based ensemble theatre company
Mabou Mines' performance
Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day explores the life and death of Lucia Joyce,
the adored daughter of James Joyce. As a young woman in Paris, Lucia's life was filled with writers and artists and
intellectuals. She was a dancer and a painter. Her father believed Lucia to be the true inheritor of his genius. But while
still in her twenties, her behavior grew erratic. For the next fifty years, until her death in 1982, Lucia was confined to
a mental hospital for schizophrenia.
This stunning production imagines Lucia as a living triptych: the institutionalized Old Lucia, Young Lucia, who dances
despite being literally tethered, and Issy, Lucia's literary reflection in Joyce's
Finnegans Wake. Weaving movement and language, three remarkable actresses animate
the three Lucia's to reveal a brilliant yet deeply troubled woman.
"Everything avant-garde theatre should be."
- Village Voice
"A stark but beautiful portrayal of Lucia's splintered inner life."
- Curtain Up
"Compelling work...subtle and beautiful."
- New York Times
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