My ideal audience for this adaptation are people who always wanted to read Ulysses but felt daunted. They may be surprised to find that it remains a book about themselves and people they know. Audiences won’t leave knowing everything about Ulysses, no more than I’ll ever comprehend the fullness of Joyce’s vision, no matter how…
Two things, above all, come over very clearly in this production. One is the extraordinarily encompassing nature of Joyce’s vision of the city-life he re-created in Ulysses: the staging, like the book, teems with variousness, and bristles with the sheer delight which Joyce, like Dickens, took in observing at close quarters the foibles and confabulations…
Dermot Bolger’s beautifully crafted adaptation (carefully and coherently selected from the fiction) has a palpable love for the sensuousness and abundance of Joyce’s language.