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
Peter Haskell
as Shem
Jane Reilly
as Anna Livia
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
Leonard Frey
as Celebrant
Joseph Maher
as Celebrant
Paddy Croft
as Celebrant