Antipodean Joyce 2000
Collideorscape, directed by Roslyn Lord (Hames)
& The Seven Ages of Joyce, directed by Howard Stanley

Australian resonances in Joyce (there are a surprising lot of them) provoke a response to his work as antipodean: inverted, upside-down, reversed, and startling to the view. How did working class North Melbourne differ from Joyce’s Dublin in 1904?
Photos by Ross Taylor
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L to R: Anna Livia (Maureen Andrew) and the Poulaphouca nymph (Bonnie Truex) at the Victoria Market
 

L to R: Maureen Andrew and Bonnie Truex become the guides to North Melbourne
 

Bloomsday patrons wind their way through the produce stalls and into North Melbourne
 

Alan Fagan (patron) enjoys a word with the Guide (Maureen Andrew)





Jim Howard (Bloom) and the guide (Bonnie Truex) stop for lunch
 

An old milkwoman (Renée Huish) spruiks her wares
 

Roz Hames (author of Collideorscape) sets out for North Melbourne
 

Bloomsday patrons attend to Stephen Dedalus at St. Joseph’s Christian Brothers College, North Melbourne





Patrons with a bird’s-eye view of Bloomsday proceedings
 

Nausicaa is performed at the Legion of Mary in North Melbourne by (top row L to R): Renée Huish, Greg Rochlin, Anna Hayes (Gerty) and Mary Kenneally (reader)
 

Bill Johnston presents prize for parody competition to Carol O’Connor
 






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