Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Now that you mention it, I remember a performance of that, done
> in a tiny little off-B'way theater with Zero Mostel as Bloom. Must've
> been back in the 50s or early 60s.
>
>> Actually, while we're talking about unperformable plays, for my
>> money the
>> great unperformable play is Nighttown in Ulysses -
>>
>> A
>
There is no earthly reason for me to remember this, since I was in high
school at the time and had barely heard of James Joyce. It was Ulysses
in Nighttown, indeed it was Mostel, and the venue was the itsy-bitsy
Cherry Lane Theater where several years later I saw two frightening
plays: in 1964, Leroi Jones' "Dutchman" (renamed himself Amiri Baraka)
and in 1967 a wonderful little apocalyptic melodrama called "Night of
the Dunce" by Frank Gagliano, starring the formerly blacklisted Anne
Revere as a librarian terrorized by thugs. I found that Gagliano is on
the Theater faculty at West Virginia University. The state of West
Virginia is not, as far as I know, an escape from Australia but the
University doesn't sound too awful as long as you never go off campus.
Ken
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