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​Bloomsday comes to Bass Coast

3/6/2021

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PictureMaggie Millar
By Ian Robinson
 
BLOOMSDAY, June 16, is the day in 1904 on which James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses is set and the day is celebrated each year throughout the world with readings from the text and discussions of the work.
 
This year Maggie Millar is reprising her legendary reading of the “Molly Bloom” monologue from the final pages of James Joyce’s novel for Bloomsday at Wild Food Farm in Rhyll.
 
No-one who has heard Maggie read “Molly Bloom” ever forgets it. It’s one of those performances that engender a long awed silence at the end, before the audience break out in applause.

​In 2007 Maggie was invited by the James Joyce Centre to perform her reading for Bloomsday in Dublin, a singular honour for an Australian actress.


At the end of a long day, Molly Bloom lies in bed next to her sleeping husband, Leopold, who has come home late and slightly intoxicated. She reflects on the day’s happenings and especially her lovemaking with her lover, Blazes Boylan.  This leads her to ruminate about her marriage, her former lovers, her childhood in Gibraltar, and her daughter Millie – reflections which are full of insights into the ways of men and women and life in general.  What  comes through in Molly’s thoughts is her openness to experience and her lust for life, captured in the repetition throughout of the word “Yes”, and climaxing with the famous affirmation of the final passage.
 
Many claim it is the finest depiction ever of the female psyche by a male writer.
 
This year, Maggie’s reading will be complemented by a delicious Irish-themed dinner from the splendid team at Wild Food Farm.
 
The meal and performance is at Wild Food Farm, on Bloomsday, Wednesday 16 June at 6.30pm.  The two-course meal and show costs just $50 and booking is essential on trybooking.com.au/BRNBT
 
For further information contact Ian Robinson 0407 240 024.
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