The workshop focused on all sorts of performance, but mainly theatrical ones. The Irish actor Paul O’Hanrahan, Dublin, was available for recitals and also contributed a presentation on the subject.

The participants came from many countries and three continents: John Gordon, USA (“Performative Epiphanies”), Hansruedi Isler, Switzerland (“Names by Performance”), Jamileh Talebizadeh, France/Iran (“Joyce through Valère Novarina”), Greg Downing, USA (“Styles as Performance in Oxen”), Anne Fogarty, Ireland (“Reinventing the Stage Irishman”), Diego Fasciati, Switzerland (“In-verse Metempsychosis”), Marianna Gula, Hungary (“Staging Patriotism in Cyclops”), Ron Hoffman, Netherlands (“Theatrical Frames”), Eva Gyurova, Bulgaria (“Chekhov and ‘Eveline’”), Hsiao Yen-Yen, Taiwan (“Performing Femininity”), Christian Jauslin, Switzerland (“Producing ALP”), Eishiro Ito, Japan (“Odysseus as a Jewish Freemason”), Charito Pizarro, Philippines (“The ‘Sonata’ Ulysses”), & Ruth Frehner & Ursula Zeller, Zürich James Joyce Foundation (“Visual Performances”).

Paul O’Hanrahan also staged a performance with audience participation.