• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Irish America

Irish America

        • Who We Are
          • About Us
          • Irish America Team
        • The Lists
          • Business 100
          • Hall of Fame
          • Health and Life Sciences 50
          • Wall Street 50
        • Highlights
          • History
          • In This Issue
          • Music
          • Politics
          • Sports
          • Travel
        • Columns
          • First Word
          • Hibernia
          • Quote Unquote
          • Slainte
          • Those we Lost
          • What are you like?
          • Wild Irish Women
          • Window on The Past
  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • About This Magazine
    • Irish America Team
  • In This Issue
  • Hall of Fame
  • The Lists
    • Business 100
    • Hall of Fame
    • Health and Life Sciences 50
    • Wall Street 50
  • Archives
    • Magazine
    • Highlights
  • Travel
  • Events

Chicago in Bloom

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2004

June 1, 2004 by Leave a Comment

Laura Scott Wade as Molly Bloom in the world premiere of A Dublin Bloom at Irish Repertory of Chicago, playing June 2 to 27 at Victory Gardens Theater. (Photo: Irish Rep of Chicago)

Following on the heels of the very successful run of Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire, Irish Repertory of Chicago’s 2004 season resumes in June with the world premiere staging of A Dublin Bloom, an adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses. This production is Irish Rep’s contribution to the worldwide “Bloomsday 100” celebration, marking one hundred years since the most famous day in literary history, the June day in 1904 when Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus set out on their individual journeys through the streets and dreams of turn-of-the-century Dublin.

A Dublin Bloom is written by best-selling novelist and playwright Dermot Bolger. “Dermot focused on first clarifying the story’s essential narrative elements, then finding a theatrically interesting way to tell that story,” says Bloom’s director Matt O’Brien. “It’s clearly about a man, a woman, and their `son’ trying to reconnect. At the same time, the script celebrates, with theatrical analogy, the variety and surprise of the book. It allows everything from a medieval dumb-show to a Marx Brothers-like courtroom scene during the Nighttown segment.”

O’Brien continued, “Molly’s monologue, which ends the book in one long stream-of-consciousness chapter, has been broken into `signpost’ segments throughout the play, her reflections on certain other characters serving as introductions to Bloom’s experience with those characters that day. The end result is a very physical and very literate play about exploration, loss, and reconciliation. A beautiful piece of work, funny, frank, and in the end, incredibly moving.”

A Dublin Bloom begins performances on June 2, 2004, opening on Saturday June 5 and running through June 27 at the 190-seat Victory Gardens Theater on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. Tickets will be priced from $30 to $42. For tickets, please call the box office at (773) 871-3000. ♦

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Highlights

News
Articles and stories from Irish America.....
MORE

Hibernia
News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America.....
MORE

Those We Lost
Remembering some of the great Irish Americans who have passed.....
MORE

Slainte!
Discover Irish ancestry, predilections, and recipes.....
MORE

Photo Album
Irish America readers share the stories of their ancestors....
MORE

More Articles

  • <b>Hibernia: Honors</b>Hibernia: Honors
    Irish LGBT Rights Campaigner Honored In NYC A street in Queens, New York, has been named after B...
  • <b>Hibernia: News</b>Hibernia: News
    Dublin Second In Europe For Improving Air Quality Dublin has been named the second most improved...
  • <b>Hibernia: Sports</b>Hibernia: Sports
    Leona Maguire Is First Irish Golfer To Win The LPGA Leona Maguire has made history as the&nb...
  • <b>Hibernia: News From Ireland</b>Hibernia: News From Ireland
    Kerry Town Named Among Europe's Most Beautiful The scenic village of Kenmare, nestled on the...

Footer

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Subscribe

  • Subscribe
  • Give a Gift
  • Newsletter
  • Customer Service

Additional

  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2022 · IrishAmerica Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in