Sunday, October 20, 2024 2:00 PM
Power Center
Ulysses
Elevator Repair Service
$15-20 student tickets available
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and even defeated readers for over a century.
Chronicling the experiences of three Dubliners over the course of a single ordinary day in June 1904, the novel captures the chaotic and fragmented nature of human consciousness. Modeled after Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses is the latest project by the New York City-based theater company Elevator Repair Service, perhaps best known for Gatz, its award-winning verbatim staging of the entire text of The Great Gatsby.
Building on a rich history of staging modernist texts, Elevator Repair Service takes on this mammoth work of 20th-century literature (in an abridged version!) for their UMS 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, Elevator Repair Service presents an eclectic sampling from Joyce’s life-affirming masterpiece.
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Ulysses
Elevator Repair Service
Power Center
Starting at $30 (+ fees)
$15-20 student tickets available
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Founded in 1991 by Artistic Director John Collins, Elevator Repair Service creates original works with an ongoing ensemble.
ERS’s theater pieces are built around a broad range of subject matter and literary forms; they combine elements of slapstick comedy, hi-tech and lo-tech design, both literary and found text, and the group’s own highly developed style of choreography.
ERS creates its performances through extended periods of collaboration. A typical development cycle includes 4-6 intensive work periods within a 2 year period, which conclude with work-in-progress showings. Time off between development is filled with touring and presentations of finished works. Following completion, the piece is presented in NYC for an extended run and is toured throughout the US and abroad.