All night long: Joyce's Ulysses, in Irish Rep's eyes, is simpler and funnier than you'd expect.(Faultlines)(Dermot Bolger)(Irish Repertory)(Interview)
American Theatre, May, 2004 by Reid, Kerry
James Joyce turned his first date with Nora Barnacle, on June 16, 1904, into a day forever associated with the 20th century's most important novel. So Matt O'Brien, artistic director of Chicago's Irish Repertory, always knew that honoring the centenary of Blooms-day would be the centerpiece of the company's current season.
"We'd done a small readers' theatre cutting from Ulysses several years ago. But I wanted to find something that really worked as a play for the 100th anniversary," says O'Brien. A journey into an online bookstore introduced him to A Dublin Bloom, ...
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