Bloomsday in Melbourne has been celebrating 16th June for more than thirty years with staged productions of his work. This year they bring a brand new play to the stage, Between The Lines: The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters. A young female academic makes the find of a lifetime – and has to negotiate her way through the patriarchal world of academe in the mid-1980s.
Bloomsday in Melbourne is also presenting their annual Bloomsday Seminar and Lunch on Sunday 21st June at The Wild Geese in Brunswick, where a panel will discuss, among other things, the repercussions of Helen Garner’s 1995 book The First Stone.
You can find out more about both events at www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au.
When a young scholar makes the discovery of the century – letters between James Joyce and comedy legend Groucho Marx – she believes she has secured her legacy.
But in the cut-throat Joyce industry, credit rarely goes to a woman. Between The Lines is a razor sharp, wryly witty literary mystery that follows her descent into a patriarchal web of ego and academic theft.
As her groundbreaking discovery is hijacked by the very mentor she trusts to protect it, truth begins to blur.
Packed with intellectual gymnastics and dramatic reversals, the story asks: who gets to own history?
In a world of literary giants, you can’t trust even the evidence of your own eyes…