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