Bloomsday in Melbourne mounts a course, one day’s immersion in James Joyce’s most Irish chapter of Ulysses, Cyclops. Continue reading
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A Feast of Clarification
In Holy Cow!, pathos was blended with comedic bombast, prolixity with wordless groans, and irony with genuine feeling. The ending was incredibly moving, reminding us of Joyce the man and the writer. Continue reading
Holy Cow! Bloomsday’s 2018 Festival
Holy Cow! Bloomsday in Melbourne’s 25th season celebrates women, fertility, the uses and abuses of tradition. Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at Bloomsday in Melbourne
While the setting and the craic is unmistakably Dublin, the literary tour embraces some Irish writers (Swift, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan) but mostly lashes out at English classics – the revenge of a supremely gifted Irish writer on English letters. Continue reading
Joyce and Divorce
Kuch has succeeded in opening Ulysses a little further, and, in giving us another option to consider in the fictional future of the Blooms, offered us another opportunity to read Joyce’s magnificent book once more anew. Continue reading
ULYSSES FOR BEGINNERS
We think Ulysses is the funniest, the wisest and the most human book, Continue reading
Ulysses for Everyone: A Guided Introductory Course on James Joyce’s Masterpiece
A highly popular introductory course on Joyce’s Ulysses to be reprised on 3 Feb. Continue reading
Centre Stage, The Bed
Janet Moran’s performance exuded the confidence of a woman secure in her bodily attractiveness and willing to surrender to her drives, while David Pearse’s Bloom was steady, sane, thoughtful, loveable, Continue reading
‘Ulysses’ in the dock
For those with a literary bent, with legal training, interested in censorship or with a James Joyce obsession, this book about the American trials in which Ulysses was alleged to be pornographic is an engaging and enlightening read. Continue reading
Joyce with his Nose in the Air
Handed such a whiffy text, director Wayne Pearn took a deep breath and turned it into a play piece of encaptivating ingenuity Continue reading
