Ocean City Rep Theater • 813 Asbury Avenue
Lured by the sweet song of different
Sirens, Bloom and Boylan go their separate ways along the Liffey while from the saloon of the Ormond Hotel emerges a fugue of music and song and
a call...long in dying...
Calypso. Mr Leopald Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.
Lotus Eaters. As Leopold Bloom sets off from Eccles Street to retrieve Martha's flower-filled love letter, visit the church, tip a race,
and visit the baths to lie naked, in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved...
Cyclops. The Citizen and his mangy mongrel Garryowen wait for what the sky would drop in the way of drink and politics,
patriotism, religion and Bloom are the targets of his vitriolic verbosity...
Nausicaa takes us to Sandymount Strand and Gerty McDowell's dreams of love with the dark stranger and the fireworks ignite both Bloom and Gerty and the Summer sky...
Circe. Stephen Dedalus and his friend Lynch, both very drunk, have entered Nighttown, Dublin's red-light district, in search of female
companionship. Leopold Bloom, who has some paternal feelings for Stephen, has followed them. A long chapter full of hallucinations and nightmares,
where Bloom confronts many of his unspoken desires and emerges strengthened.
Eumaeus. Through the gloom and dark of after-midnight Dublin, Bloom steers a tired but singing Stephen Dedalus to the cabman's shelter
at Butt Bridge and on towards Gardiner Street and a safe haven at No. 7 Eccles Street as their day's odyssey winds down, slowly down...
And finally, from her jingling brass bed, Molly Bloom, her Leopold/Ulysses returned from his wanderings, draws us into Penelope,
her stream-of-consciousness soliloquy with its final, great, life-affirming Yes.
Ocean City Repertory Theater presented its 6th annual staged reading of James Joyce's Ulysses,
our annual celebration of life, love, language, literature and the coming of summertime,
on Wednesday, June 16, from noon to midnight.