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New York City: Joyce among the ruins.(James Joyce)
From: American Theatre
Date: 20060501
Author:Grote, Jason
IN 2001, SHEILA CALLAGHAN SET AN ARDUOUS TASK for herself--adapting James Joyce's modernist epic Ulysses into a play. But that wasn't her original intent. At first she just wanted to read the thing.
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"Ulysses was first on the Modern Library's top 100 books of the century," says Callaghan, "but I hadn't read it." She set out to do so with playwrights Anne Washburn and Gary Winter--and discovered how thorny the work could be. "There were beautiful parts, but my goal was just to get through it. I thought if I could adapt it, I could get more out of ...
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