Have you ever read a book that included a toilet visitation, a bar room brawl, an act of seduction, naughty shenanigans on a beach and lewd thoughts, adultery and a detailed description of urinating in a back garden? And all this happening in just one day! If you haven’t then you haven’t read James Joyce’s Ulysses!
Ulysses is considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, novel ever written. Speaking about Ulysses, Joyce once famously declared, “there is not one serious line in it.” But how many people have ever read it? Very few have made it beyond the first few episodes; they usually become entangled in Joyce’s style of writing and presentation and get completely lost and confused.
Writer, actor and Joycean enthusiast, Robert Gogan is here to help. Gogan’s mission is to introduce everybody to the fun and laughter of Ulysses and to make the great novel accessible to anyone who wants to read it. Strolling Through Ulysses! is a one-man show that tells the fun-filled story of Bloomsday, 16 June 1904, the iconic day around which James Joyce’s Ulysses is based.
Join us for what promises to be an evening of fun and entertainment.