Ulysses Missa - The Evolution Festival

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An Impressionist Musical Adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses

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The Evolution Festival 2024

The 2024 Evolution Festival showcases 18 original works of theater, dance, music, and comedy by NYC-area artists from September 5-28, 2024. Learn more about the festival and the full performance line-up at centeratwestpark.org/evolution-festival-2024

Ulysses Missa is an a cappella musical adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses that subverts the structure of a Catholic Latin High Mass. Using the form of the Mass, it tells the story of Leopold Bloom as he confronts the inevitability of his wife, Molly’s, upcoming affair with Blazes Boylan. He feels hopeless until he encounters the young upstart, Stephen Dedalus who enables a true meeting of the minds. In the end, after all the ill-spoken about her, we finally hear from Molly herself about the affair. Celebrate one of the greatest works of modernist literature with sirens, prostitutes, a cyclops, the ghost of King Hamlet and his own father, and bullying barmaids. This timeless story features themes of self-sacrifice, individualism, metempsychosis, untraditional love and devotion, and the meaning of an artistic mind.Creative TeamSarah Norcross - Writer and ComposerAdapted from James JoyceEmily Bubeck - Director Cast Ongama Mhlontlo - Leopold Bloom Dylan T Jackson - Stephen Dedalus Avery Pedell - Molly Bloom Matt Greer - Blazes Boylan Aiyana Greene - Heavenly Voice Sarah Norcross - Gerty MacDowell About the Evolution FestivalUlysses Missa is presented as part of The Center at West Park's 2024 EVOLUTION FESTIVAL. The 2024 Evolution Festival showcases eighteen original works of theater, dance, music, comedy, and interdisciplinary performance by NYC-area artists from September 5-28, 2024. Learn more about the festival and the full performance line-up at centeratwestpark.org/evolution-festival-2024

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