Bard SummerScape Presents
Ulysses
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
“A heroic achievement…Elevator Repair Service’s adaptation merrily condenses the choicest essentials of James Joyce’s magnum opus.” —Village Voice
“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: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
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