Recipient of the
2012 American Theatre Wing
National Theatre Company Award

Production Photos from
James Joyce’s The Dead,
March–April 2006

Photos by Tim Fuller

Preshow with Round the House
Claire Zucker, Sharon Goldwasser, David Firestine and Mark Robertson-Tessi
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It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance.
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For years and years it had gone off in splendid style as long as anyone could remember,
ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had taken Mary Jane,
their only niece, to live with them in the dark gaunt house on Usher’s Island.
Mona Tadych (Miss Julia), Arlene Naughton (Mary Jane) and Roberta Royse Streicher (Miss Kate)
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Come live with me, and be my love
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hill and valley, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
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It was that of an old song of Aunt Julia’s—Arrayed for the Bridal.
To follow her voice, without looking at the singer’s face,
was to feel and share the excitement of swift and secure flight.
Mona Tadych (Miss Julia) and Amy Kenton (Miss O’Callaghan)
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Gabriel took his seat boldly at the head of the table and plunged his fork firmly into the goose.
He felt quite at ease now for he was an expert carver and liked nothing better
than to find himself at the head of a well-laden table.
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Make like a bird for Trinity College!
Brian Wees (Freddy Malins), William Killian (Mr. Browne),
Roxanne Harley (Mrs. Malins), and Christopher Burnham (Mr. Bergin)
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She was walking on before him so lightly and so erect that he longed to run after her noiselessly,
catch her by the shoulders and say something foolish and affectionate into her ear.
Front: Joseph McGrath (Gabriel Conroy), Amy Almquist (Gretta Conroy),
Harlan Hokin (Bartell D’Arcy), and Amy Kenton (Miss O’Callaghan).
Back: James Naughton (Mr. Corley)
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Perhpas she had felt the impetuous desire that was in him,
and then the yielding mood had come upon her.
Joseph McGrath (Gabriel Conroy) and Amy Almquist (Gretta Conroy)
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I implored him to go home at once and told him he would get his death in the rain.
But he said he did not want to live.
Joseph McGrath (Gabriel Conroy) and Amy Almquist (Gretta Conroy)
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe
and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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