Theatre: Bolger breathes fresh life into Bloom and Buck

Ulysses by James Joyce; adapted by Dermot Bolger

**Project Arts Centre, Dublin; on tour**

**Rating:** 4/5

**Reviewed by Andrew Lynch**

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to actually read. Since Mark Twain's description applies to Ulysses more than any other novel, a stage version of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece has obvious attractions. This freewheeling adaptation by Dermot Bolger may not quite achieve classic status, but ...