James Joyce only wrote a single play in his lifetime, and it was a critical disaster. Inspired by the work of Ibsen, Joyce created Exiles, “a work freighted with jealousy and the ogre of betrayal… His efforts to have it produced were Herculean and sometimes ludicrous… The tension surrounding the first night had something of the mystique of a séance, [and] the play was immediately withdrawn.” Exiles is currently being revived in London.