"The He & The She of It" - A Portrait of James Joyce

One of Ireland’s leading actors Frank Grimes performs his riveting portrait of one of the world’s greatest literary figures, James Joyce. With extracts from ‘Finnegans Wake’, ‘The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’, ‘Dubliners’ and ‘Ulysses’, this performance is a superb tribute to the great man and his work and the ICC is thrilled to be presenting it during the 100th anniversary year of his master piece ‘ULYSSES’.

“the he and the she it…”A Portrait of James Joyce, with it’s title taken from a line in Finnegans Wake, is the story of Joyce’s life and about the love between a man and a woman, Joyce and Nora Barnacle. “Grimes’ concern is to illustrate Joyce’s biography with extracts from his novels. So Stephen Dedalus at school, in Portrait of the Artist is taken to represent Joyce at school and Gabriel Conroy’s jealousy at his lover’s deceased ex in The Dead becomes Joyce’s possessive jealousy over his wife Nora Barnacle. Other intriguing titbits tumble forth… it perhaps demands that you actually open the Ulysses that’s been on the shelf all these years impressing visitors, which is no mean feat.”  Brian Logan Time Out

ABOUT FRANK GRIMES

Frank Grimes has been an actor for over fifty years. Trained at the Abbey Theatre and a member of the Abbey Players for seven years, scoring an early success as Brendan Behan in Borstal Boy at the Abbey, in Paris and on Broadway, where he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor. He has worked extensively in theatre in London, at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court and London's West End as well as in Dublin and New York. His many TV, Film and Radio appearances include Father O'Conner in Strumpet City, for which won the Jacobs Award, Mrs Brown's Boys and Major Fuller in A Bridge Too Far. He has previously performed his hit one-man show on James Joyce, "The he and the she of it..." in Dublin, London and Paris as well as here at the ICC, several times.

http://www.frankgrimes.co.uk

Frank Grimes was born in Dublin and trained at the Abbey Theatre. He scored an early success on Broadway as Brendan Behan in the Tony Award winning BorstalBoy. Frank received a Tony Nomination for Best Actor and was voted, “Most Promising Actor” by the New York critics in Variety. Frank has worked extensively in the London theatre, at the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre.
His many television and film credits include, A Bridge Too Far,  My Son, MySon,  The Outsider, Blind Justice, When The Sky Falls, Kavanagh QC. He played Barry in Coronation Street and he appeared in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s musical, The Beautiful Game.

Frank’s exhilarating performance in “the he and the she of it…” A Portrait of James Joyce, is simply breath taking. Not to be missed! Those of you who saw the show performed at the ICC in 2017 will know what a great homage to James Joyce it is. It’s a real literary feast and a fine example of theatre at its very best.

PRESS QUOTES

“Grimes’s finest hour” The Irish Times…

“…Vintage thespian gusto” The Sunday Times (Irish Edition)…

“- Grimes makes a beautiful Molly Bloom” Time Out…

“Mesmerising… it was as good an evening in the theatre as you could wish to have” Croydon Advertiser.