The Wild Geese Players of Seattle present Readings for Samhain.
Spooks and ghouls and hauntings from Celtic and other writers! Pour a brew and get ready to shiver your timbers!
Sat, Oct 26, 2024, at 7pm
The Couth Buzzard,
8310 Greenwood Ave N,
Seattle, WA 98103.
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The Wild Geese Players of Seattle will present a staged reading of Episode 15, “Circe” (part 1), adapted from the 1922 edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Two years ago marked the centenary of the publication of Ulysses in 1922.
For our 27th annual reading,
we’ll present Episode 15, “Circe” (part 1),
at 2:00pm on Saturday, June 15, 2024 at the
Fremont Branch
of the Seattle Public Library,
731 N. 35th St,
Seattle, WA 98103.
Bloomsday (Bloom’s day, named for Ulysses’ main character, Leopold Bloom) refers to the 24-hour period on June 16, 1904 in which Ulysses is set. Joyce’s ground-breaking novel follows the wanderings of Bloom, a Jewish everyman, and Stephen Dedalus, a young writer and Joyce’s alter ego, as they wander the streets of Dublin.
In Episode 15, it is around midnight, and Stephen Dedalus and his friend Lynch, both very drunk, have entered Nighttown, Dublin’s red-light district, in search of female companionship. Leopold Bloom, who has some paternal feelings for Stephen, has followed them. This chapter is full of hallucinations and nightmares, where Bloom confronts many of his unspoken desires and emerges strengthened.
This chapter is enormously long. We’ll read the first half this year and the second half in 2025.
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Read along with the script. Adapted by George Reilly from the Project Gutenberg text.
The Wild Geese Players of Seattle join Bloomsday celebrations across the globe honoring Ulysses’ author James Joyce.
For our 27th annual reading, we’ll present Episode 15, “Circe” (part one), at 2:00pm on Saturday, June 15, 2024 at the Fremont Branch of the Seattle Public Library, 731 N. 35th St, Seattle, WA 98103.
Bloomsday (Bloom’s day, named for Ulysses’ main character, Leopold Bloom) refers to the 24-hour period on June 16, 1904 in which Ulysses is set. Ulysses follows the wanderings of Bloom, a Jewish everyman, and Stephen Dedalus, a young writer and Joyce’s alter ego, as they wander the streets of Dublin.
In Episode 15, it is around midnight, and Stephen Dedalus and his friend Lynch, both very drunk, have entered Nighttown, Dublin’s red-light district, in search of female companionship. Leopold Bloom, who has some paternal feelings for Stephen, has followed them. This chapter is full of hallucinations and nightmares, where Bloom confronts many of his unspoken desires and emerges strengthened.
Since 1998, The Wild Geese Players of Seattle have presented staged readings of Irish literature, by writers such as James Joyce and W.B. Yeats. The Geese are a diverse group of people who share an interest in matters Irish. Some of us were born in Ireland, some have family connections, but we all enjoy Irish literature. We believe that poetry and certain novels are best read aloud, that some works are better heard than read.
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The Wild Geese Players of Seattle will present a staged reading of Episode 14, “Oxen of the Sun”, adapted from the 1922 edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Last year marked the centenary of the publication of Ulysses in 1922.
For our 26th annual reading,
we’ll present Episode 14, “Oxen of the Sun”,
at 2:00pm on June 17, 2023 at the
Greenwood Branch
of the Seattle Public Library,
8016 Greenwood Ave N,
Seattle, WA 98103.
Bloomsday (Bloom’s day, named for Ulysses’ main character, Leopold Bloom) refers to the 24-hour period on June 16, 1904 in which Ulysses is set. Joyce’s ground-breaking novel follows the wanderings of Bloom, a Jewish everyman, and Stephen Dedalus, a young writer and Joyce’s alter ego, as they wander the streets of Dublin.
In Episode 14, it is 10pm, and Leopold Bloom visits a maternity hospital, where poor Mina Purefoy is entering her 3rd day of labor. Bloom encounters a group of drunken medical students, who carry on wildly while discussing poor Mrs. Purefoy’s fate. In this episode, Joyce’s incomparable narrative celebrates the history of the English language through elaborate parodies and structures. At the same time, he reveals much about contemporary attitudes surrounding pregnancy and birth.
Read along with the script. Adapted by George Reilly from the Project Gutenberg text.
This is our twenty-sixth year of Bloomsday readings. (Press Release).