Photo Flash: James Joyce's Exiles in London

Exiles, the only play written by literary icon James Joyce, is currently being presented at the Royal National Theatre in London; it opened on August 2nd and plays through October 26th.

"Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard (Peter McDonald) and Bertha (Dervla Kirwan) have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold them together? Exiles is a startlingly modern picture of marriage, based in part on Joyce's own relationship with Nora Barnacle. His only play, it was written in 1914 during his own self-imposed exile from Ireland, between Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses," state notes on the National Theatre's website.

Visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk for more information.

Photos by Nigel Norrington/Camera Press/Retna Ltd.

 
Dervla Kirwan

Dervla Kirwan and Adrian Dunbar

Thomas Grant and Peter McDonald

Dervla Kirwan

Adrian Dunbar and Peter McDonald

Peter McDonald and Dervla Kirwan

Marcella Plunkett and Dervla Kirwan