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What kind of director would think of staging chapter fifteen of James Joyce’s Ulysses, with its stream-of-consciousness representation of one man’s mental processes during a single day? Who’d want to tackle all those puns, metaphors, allegorical riffs, allusions, fragments of liturgy and bits of drama, poetry, Shakespeare and even Gilbert and Sullivan? Germinal’s Ed Baierlein, that’s who. At first confounding, even stunning, the production’s magnificent stream of language was ultimately an exhilarating experience. Within Germinal’s small space, Baierlein and his talented cast communicated the unwieldy, magnificent uncontainability of Joyce’s magnum opus.
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