MONDAY JUNE 16! BLOOMSDAY!

Auckland’s fabulous literary cabaret Bloomsday is on again, Monday June 16, at the Thirsty Dog, Karangahape Rd, 7.30pm.

This year’s Bloomsday sees epic sandals and skirts soap stars Lucy Lawless and Michael Hurst united as part of the international tribute to James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses.
Joyce’s 750-page comic novel is celebrated in pubs the world over on June 16, the world’s sole annual commemoration of a date in which something happened only in a book.
On that single all-including day Joyce re-imagines Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey unfolding its ten Mediterranean years out onto the streets and seaside and red-light district of Dublin, 1904, as Leopold Bloom, Dublin Jew, wanders the town.

It’s a day now celebrated as “Bloomsday” and in Auckland it’s remembered in the middle of Auckland’s red-light district on K Rd.
Lucy Lawless will be making a guest appearance as Molly Bloom, faithless wife, reading from Molly’s extraordinary and explicit 50-page soliloquy. 

Previous Auckland Mollys have been Robyn Malcolm, Carmel McGlone and Noelle McCarthy.
Michael Hurst will be playing Joyce’s alter ego, Stephen Dedalus.
Bloom will be played by resident Grey Lynn ace musician Hershal Herscher, complete with Brooklyn (NY) accent
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The world-renowned Auckland show has been appearing every June 16 since 2001.
Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday, Thirsty Dog Tavern, Karangahape Rd, Auckland.
Monday night, June 16, 7.30pm-10.30pm.