Ulysses
Puppet making assistance
Bloom’s odyssey is a pandemonium of live music, puppets, dancing, clowning, bowler hats and kazoos. It’s Ulysses as you’ve never imagined it before, a superbly theatrical homage to Joyce’s chronicle of Dublin life and the greatest novel of all time. Created by Abbey Theatre Director Graham McLaren, our production is absurd, brilliant and oodles of fun.
"Gavin Glover made wonderful puppets."
Dermot Bolger, BBC Radio4 Front Row 2018
Collaboration with Gavin Glover
For several years, Gavin Glover and Sònia Gardés shared a studio and collaborated assisting each other on different projects, including Ulysses (Abbey Theatre, 2018) and Wizard of Oz (Pitlochery Festival Theatre, 2018).
At the Southside Studios (Glasgow), Sònia Gardés also collaborated with puppet designer and maker Fergus Dunnet as a making assistant for productions such as Strange Tales, by Grid Iron Theatre Company (Traverse Theatre, 2019).
Credits
Performers: Bryan Burroughs, Faoileann Cunningham, Caitríona Ennis, Donal Gallery, Raymond Keane, Stephen Jones, Janet Moran, David Pearse
Written by: James Joyce
Adapted by: Dermot Bolger
Directed & Designed by: Graham McLaren
Musical Director: Jon Beales
Puppetry Designer & Maker: Gavin Glover
Movement Director: Eddie Kay
Clown Consultant: Raymond Keane
Lighting Designer: Kevin McFadden
Sound Designer: Ben Delaney
Costume Designer: Niamh Lunny
Costume Supervisor: Orla Long
Wigs & Make Up: Val Sherlock
Wigs & Make Up Assistant: Caroline McCurdy
Associate Designer: Ciara Murnane
Voice Director: Andrea Ainsworth
Casting Director (2017): Kelly Phelan
Casting Director (2018): Maureen Hughes & Sarah Jones
Production Manager: Marie Tierney
Stage Manager: Diarmuid O'Quigley
Deputy Stage Manager: Tara Furlong
Assistant Stage Manager: Audrey Rooney
