Bloomsday 2020: "Molly's Soliloquy"

Program Type:

Online/Virtual, Literature, Performing Arts

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

For its 10th annual Bloomsday celebration, SDPL virtually joins the international Bloomsday festivities on June 16 celebrating James Joyce's legacy and his great novel Ulysses with a reading performance of Molly's Soliloquy, the book’s controversial last chapter.

Featuring Molly Bloom, the sexually assertive wife of main character Leopold Bloom, Molly’s Soliloquy will be performed as part of Write Out Loud’s read-aloud program, Listen to This, which records and shares favorite short stories each day with a growing number of local and international listeners. Sign up for your free daily stories read aloud by some of the best performers in San Diego. Be warned that there's adult language and content in the piece.

Bloomsday is observed annually on June 16th, when Joyce fans from all walks of life and around the world open a book, raise a glass, and relive the events in Ulysses, which take place on that single day, June 16, 1904.   

Listen to Molly's Soliloquy as performed by Write Out Loud's Linda Libby

Read full text of Molly's Soliloquy

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Bloomsday events around the world:

Live from New York: 39th Annual Bloomsday on Broadway

Beginning at 8:00 am (11 am PT) at Symphony Space, a cavalcade of actors, authors, and musicians will drop in throughout the day with music and readings from one of the greatest literary works in history.

Online Bloomsday Festival

From 10:00 am to 9:00 pm, Irish time, this year the Light Theatre Company and the Rostrevor Inn are planning a one-day festival online to celebrate Bloomsday.  So, get out your copies of Ulysses or any other Joyce text, poem or song and use your mobile device to film yourself, preferably in whatever makeshift costume of the period you can find in the back of your wardrobe and join in the fun. There will be prizes for the best costume and rendition.

Bloomsday Zoomsday

ReJoyce! This year of the pandemic, the Toronto Bloomsday Festival will host its 35th Bloomsday celebration via Zoom of live readings from Joyce’s Ulysses with song and musical accompaniment.

Re: Joyce! 30-hour Ulysses to air on RTÉ radio this Bloomsday

Ireland’s leading public radio and TV broadcaster RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) will air dramatized 30-hour production of Ulysses on its DAB and online worldwide channel RTÉ Radio 1 Extra to celebrate Bloomsday.

Accessibility

Need disability-related modifications or accommodations? Information and program content can be made available in alternative formats upon request by emailing JFRogers@sandiego.gov.