From Page to Stage: Adapting Fiction for the Stage with Dermot Bolger

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In this talk and Q & A session, Dermot Bolger explores the challenges in adapting Ulysses, or any work of fiction, for the stage.

Some years ago the novelist, poet and playwright Dermot Bolger took what he himself described as “the near impossible task” of adapting Joyce’s Ulysses – a masterpiece of 265,000 words, written in eighteen episodes and a dazzling array of linguistic styles – into a stage play. He initially approached the task with a palpable terror until he realised that his anxiety as a playwright reflected the terror readers often feel when approaching it as a book. He therefore took as his starting point a complaint by Nora Barnacle that Joyce kept her awake at night, laughing so much as he wrote it and subtly got under the skin and prejudices of his claustrophobic Dublin.In this talk and Q &amp; A session, Bolger explores the challenges in adapting Ulysses, or any work of fiction, for the stage and chronicles the adventures of his own Ulysses adaption which was staged in Ireland by the Abbey Theatre and toured China in a famous Tron Theatre production. Bolger’s latest collection of poems, Other People’s Lives, is p published in April 2022.

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From Page to Stage: Adapting Fiction for the Stage with Dermot Bolger

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