Molly Bloom: The Earth and The Music
T01073189409
The musical is based on the Molly Bloom episode of Ulysses, the celebrated -stream of consciousness -, in which Joyce conveys the urgency of Molly s thoughts and feelings by completely abolishing punctuation. This chapter caused a scandal when it was written (in England the ban was not lifted until the Fifties) and it does now: not so much because of the coarseness of its content but because of the poetic violence with which it digs deep into the recesses of a woman s soul. Molly s candour when she passes in a flash from the depths of obscenity to the utterly sublime make her without doubt one of the greatest female characters of our century s literature - she s as great as Earth itself, of which she s a metaphor.
Archive :: production:T01073189409, musical:S38501731, venue:V207
