Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Get a first look into the rehearsal process for Elevator Repair Service’s Ulysses, with insights from co-directors John Collins and Scott Shepherd.

SummerScape Theater 2024
Elevator Repair Service
Ulysses
June 20 – July 14

SummerScape Commission/World Premiere

Created by Elevator Repair Service
Directed by John Collins
Co-Direction and Dramaturgy by Scott Shepherd
Text: Ulysses by James Joyce

https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ulysses/

Video: A Doll's House Pictures (adollshousepictures.com)

James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and/or defeated readers for over a century. Building on a rich history of staging modernist works—Gatz, The Sound and the Fury, The Select (The Sun Also Rises)—Elevator Repair Service (ERS) takes on this Mount Everest of twentieth-century literature in their Fisher Center debut.

Seven performers sit down for a sober reading but soon find themselves guzzling pints, getting in brawls, and committing debaucheries as they careen on a fast-forward tour through Joyce’s funhouse of styles. With madcap antics and a densely layered sound design, ERS presents an eclectic sampling from Joyce’s life-affirming masterpiece.