James Joyce is Dead and So is Paris: The Lucia Joyce Cabaret

Pig Iron Theatre Company's production of The Lucia Joyce Cabaret

James Joyce is Dead and So is Paris: The Lucia Joyce Cabaret

2003

A rock-n-roll cabaret set in a mental hospital, emceed by James Joyce’s institutionalized daughter.

“The group's first original-score musical reasserts their status as Philadelphia's most imaginative theater company.” - Philadelphia Weekly

Lover of Samuel Beckett, patient of Carl Jung, and daughter of the planet's most acclaimed writer, Lucia Joyce tells her story amidst a gallery of hospitalized characters from outside the margins of “decent society.

Barrymore Award 2003
Best Supporting Actress - Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey as Madeleine

Barrymore Award 2003
Best Sound Design

Media

Press

“The group's first original-score musical reasserts their status as Philadelphia's most imaginative theater company.”

Philadelphia Weekly

“The combination of James Sugg's compelling music, the odd, remarkable lyrics, Deborah Stein's inventive writing, and the idiosyncratic ensemble acting under the direction of Dan...

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