GLAS Events, Prose
Colm Tóibín (07.10.2005)
by Geneva Literary Aid Society •
GLAS Events, Theatre
Catalpa by Donal O’Kelly (18.06.2005)
by Geneva Literary Aid Society •
Catalpa is a story in the great epic tradition of Moby Dick and Gone With The Wind with a passing glance at the Great Escape. From New Bedford, USA to Freemantle, Australia, across the high seas on the whaling ship Catalpa. Based on the true story of the daring rescue of six Irish prisoners in…
GLAS Events, Music, Review
An Evening with Ronnie Drew (16.04.2005)
by Geneva Literary Aid Society •
An Evening with Ronnie Drew, Theatre Cité Bleue, Geneva – April 16, 2005 No historian could ever summon up the feel and texture of the nation the way Ronnie Drew does through the course of a ghost-filled evening. In Geneva last Saturday night, he took us on an unsentimental journey down the last 150-odd years,…
News, Review
David Norris event launches Geneva Literary Aid Society
by Denis McClean •
Over 200 people braved the cold winter night on January 27 to take their seats in the theatre at the College de Coudrier to hear the well-known Joycean scholar David Norris’ give his tour de force performance based on the life and work of James Joyce, “Do You Hear What I’m Seeing?”. They had gathered…
GLAS Events, Poetry, Prose, Theatre
Do You Hear What I’m Seeing – David Norris on Joyce (27.01.2005)
by Geneva Literary Aid Society •
In his incomparable one-man show, Do You Hear What I’m Seeing, David Norris evokes Joyce’s humour and humanity from the early short stories to the linguistic mosaic of Finnegan’s Wake.