Elevator Repair Service Takes on Bloomsday Tickets

Ulysses has famously perplexed scholars and readers alike. This complex, maddening, and epic novel chronicling a single day in turn-of-the-century Dublin will be the subject of Elevator Repair Service’s next major project, commissioned by Symphony Space. To mark the centennial of the novel's publication, an ensemble of five will take on the seemingly impossible and very unlikely task of delivering the entire 700 page novel in just 90 minutes. The company will present representative sections combined with a mad dash of activity, speeding voices, and a full embrace of the novel’s chaotic mash-up of styles. Using the simple proposition of a group of scholars sitting down for a panel discussion, the piece will reverberate with both the literary achievement of the novel and its notorious vulgarity.