Bard SummerScape Presents
Ulysses
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
“The Elevator Repair Service production, playing at Bard through July 14, somehow manages to reduce the novel’s more than 260,000 words to 2 hours and 40 minutes with much of its humor, pathos, and bawdiness intact.”—New York Times
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and/or defeated readers for over a century. Building on a rich history of staging modernist works—Gatz, The Sound and the Fury, The Select (The Sun Also Rises)—Elevator Repair Service (ERS) takes on this Mount Everest of twentieth-century literature in their Fisher Center debut.
Seven performers sit down for a sober reading but soon find themselves guzzling pints, getting in brawls, and committing debaucheries as they careen on a fast-forward tour through Joyce’s funhouse of styles. With madcap antics and a densely layered sound design, ERS presents an eclectic sampling from Joyce’s life-affirming masterpiece.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ulysses/.
Time: 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Fisher Center, LUMA Theater