Joyce gets a global twist as The Dead is reimagined for the stage

Bill Irwin, Kate Kennedy, Marie Mullen, Aaron Monaghan and Jude Akuwudike in EpiphanyROBBIE JACK

Epiphany

Town Hall Theatre, Galway

Run ended

Rating:****

For James Joyce, whose short story The Dead is the inspiration for Brian Watkins’s new play, the word “epiphany” relates to the revelation of the authentic self at a moment of crisis or transformation. That is what Morkan (Marie Mullen), the effervescent host at the heart of Epiphany, is hoping for when she invites a miscellaneous gang of friends to her grand house on January ...