11 – 22 June 2025
Bloomsday in Melbourne presents Circe’s Carnival of Vice, a new adaptation of the infamous Circe episode of Ulysses at fortyfivedownstairs (Melbourne’s leading independent theatre venue), 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne from 11-22 June 2025.
When men fall under the spell of Circe, what can they become? This is James Joyce’s most sustained engagement with the New Psychiatry and Sexology. It is a wild carnival ride of surreal hallucinations exploring the outer realms of gender identity and sexuality in Dublin 1904 – an over-the-top world of music, laughter… and vice. This production coincides with the centenary of the Free State’s razing of Monto, the red-light district of Dublin. Joyce’s treatment is gritty, iconoclastic, moving, and uproarious.
Book tickets for the play: fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/circes-carnival-of-vice
On Saturday 14th June, the annual Bloomsday Seminar and Lunch will be held from 11 a.m. at The Swiss Club, a step away from the theatre. The papers by Dan Boyle, Thespian, and Dr Manuela Hrasky, Psychiatrist.
Book tickets for seminar/lunch: https://bit.ly/bday25_lunch
For more information about the Bloomsday Festival in Melbourne, see the website (www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au).
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