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Article: All night long: Joyce's Ulysses, in Irish Rep's eyes, is simpler and funnier than you'd expect.(Faultlines)(Dermot Bolger)(Irish Repertory)(Interview)
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- American Theatre
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- May 1, 2004
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James Joyce turned his first date with Nora Barnacle, on June 16, 1904, into a day forever associated with the 20th century's most important novel. So Matt O'Brien, artistic director of Chicago's Irish Repertory, always knew that honoring the centenary of Blooms-day would be the centerpiece of the company's current season.
"We'd done a small readers' theatre cutting from Ulysses several years ago. But I wanted to find something that really worked as a play for the 100th anniversary," says O'Brien. A journey into an online bookstore introduced him to A Dublin Bloom, Irish novelist, poet and playwright Dermot Bolger's theatrical version of a day in the ...