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• Program Information

• Cast Party Information

• Program Notes

• Script

• Ulysses Table

• Artwork

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This OLLI-AU Event will be a Zoom Webinar

starting on Wednesday, February 2 at 2:00 PM ET

and continuing for about 3 & 1/2 hours

The Cast Party will also be on Zoom

starting on Thursday, February 3 at 2:00 PM ET

and continuing for about two hours

OUR PROGRAM

Introductory Remarks by H.E. Daniel Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland to the United States

Reading of Passages from the 18 Episodes (chapters) of Ulysses:

EPISODE SCRIPT_PAGE READER

1) Telemachus 1 Robert Aubry Davis

2) Nestor 8 Sandy Leibowitz

3) Proteus 12 Barnaby Powell

4) Calypso 15 Enid Hyde

5) Lotus Eaters 20 Gail Lelyveld

6) Hades 22 Bill Hadden

7) Aeolus 25 Gary Lonergan

8) Lestrygonians 31 Richard Hoffman

9) Scylla & Charybdis 34 Steven Lamm

10) Wandering Rocks 38 Sarel Kromer

11) Sirens 44 Marilyn Wong Gleysteen

12) Cyclops 49 Dan Mulhall

13) Nausicaa 61 Geraldine Fitzgerald

14) Oxen of the Sun 65 Daniel Sachs

15) Circe 68 Robert Aubry and Patty Davis

16) Eumaeus 77 Dorothy Haase

17) Ithaca 81 Patricia A. Mertz/Christopher Griffin

18) Penelope 91 Eleanor Heginbotham

This event is free-of-charge

CAST PARTY (Program on Webpage)

• The Following Day, on Thursday, February 3 from 2 to 4 PM there will be a Cast Party (all welcome) featuring readings of passages from some writers who influenced James Joyce (Ben Jonson, Henrik Ibsen, Gustave Flaubert) and Readings of Passages from some writers influenced by him (William Faulkner, Antony Burgess, Thomas Pynchon) followed by discussion, other readings, music, contests with prizes and surprises (Joyce/Ireland trivia, joke-telling, singing).

SCRIPT PAGES FOR CAST PARTY READINGS: Jonson P93; Flaubert P96; Ibsen P99; Faulkner P103; Burgess P106; Pynchon P108.

PROGRAM NOTES

The program will include a brief introduction to Ulysses by Daniel Mulhall, the Ambassador of Ireland to the United States, whose book, Ulysses: A Reader's Odyssey, is being published in late January 2022. On his Ambassador's Blog he has posted cogent introductions to most of the episodes of Ulysses.

Our other headliner readers are Robert Aubry Davis, host of the Around Town Program on WETA, and Christopher Griffin, Professor of Irish Literature.

Jonson, Ibsen and Flaubert are the three writers as to whom Joyce read all their works. Faulkner, Burgess, and Pynchon are three of the many writers influenced by Joyce.

100 years ago James Joyce received as a 40th birthday present the publication of Ulysses from Sylvia Beach, owner of the Shakespeare & Co bookstore in Paris - who had never before published a book, but had volunteered for the job when none of the established companies would take it on, due to the censorship of the book in English-speaking countries.

Ulysses is the landmark modernist novel which many commentators have described as the written equivalent of modernist and post-modernist art movements such as: post-impressionism, fauvism, cubism, dadaism, constructivism, supremacism, surrealism.

People new to Ulysses might be interested in the webpages for last year's celebration at JJ BDay Celebration 2021 and a short introduction to Ulysses course at PDQ Joyce.

Responsibility for whatever goes wrong - Bob Kolodney (bobkolive@gmail.com)

OUR SCRIPT (Please scroll in place or open in upper right-hand corner):