Based on the stage play Passages from Finnegans Wake, itself based on random passages from Finnegans Wake, Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation is a comical, avant-garde kaleidoscope about a man named Finnegan who dreams about his wake and then wakes up from his dream.
Martin J. Kelley
as Finnegan
Jane Reilly
as Anna Livia
Peter Haskell
as Shem
Page Johnson
as Shaun
John V. Kelleher
as Commentator
Ray Flanagan
as Young Shem
Maura Pryor
as Young Iseult
Jo Jo Slavin
as Young Shaun
Ray Alan
as Celebrant
Joseph Alderman
as Celebrant
Ray Allan
as Celebrant
Virginia Blue
as Celebrant