Live Play Reading – ‘Wake & See’ by Frank Grimes
Veronica Quilligan and Frank Grimes perform a rehearsed reading of Frank’s new play, ‘Wake n See’, a comedy set during the first Covid lockdown.
Set during the first Covid lockdown, Jim, a lonely OAP, struggling with the isolation, has given himself a challenge, to make sense of Finnegans Wake! This evening he is expecting a lady caller he met at the Irish Centre. Excited at the prospect of his visitor, he has high hopes for the evening. Preparing supper and sprucing himself up for the arrival of his guest, ‘I’m liberally dished seeing myself in this trim’… Jim muses on Finnegans Wake with generous helpings of Jameson!
Drawing of James Joyce dancing is by the British painter, poetry and publisher, Desmond Harmsworth
7.30pm
Tickets: £7
Veronica Quilligan made her acting debut at the Royal Court Theatre in Edna O’Brien’s A Pagan Place, for which she won the Plays and Players Most Promising Newcomer award. She has since worked at the NT, RSC, The Abbey Theatre, Field Day and repertory theatres across the UK. Her work also includes TV, Film and Radio. As a director she has worked at LAMDA, the Finborough, the Chiswick Theatre, the Playground and the Hope Theatre.
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 Nomination for Best Actor, the play winning the Tony Award. 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 performed his one-man show on James Joyce, “The he and the she of it…” in Dublin, London and Paris and here at the ICC, three times. www.frankgrimes.co.uk
