The United States vs Ulysses

Directed by Conall Morrison
From Once Off Productions

Presented in association with 
The Brandt Jackson Foundation

It’s 1933, and James Joyce’s sexually explicit Ulysses has been banned in the U.S. for a decade. But now, a hungry young publisher and an ambitious lawyer have teamed up to take on the Puritans. Can they convince the judge that Ulysses is not obscene? And what will happen when Ulysses gets under their skin—and Molly Bloom gets into their heads? 

The United States vs Ulysses is a bawdy courtroom drama telling the true story of the New York trial that liberated James Joyce’s seminal novel from American censorship and made Joyce a cultural icon.

★★★★ "A deliciously 1930s radio-serial framework...staged with verve [and] entertainingly and skillfully brought to life"—THE IRISH TIMES

Cast: Clare Barrett, Ross Gaynor, Morgan C. Jones, Mark Lambert, Ali White, Jonathan White

Creative team: Liam Doona (set design), Catherine Fay (costume design), John Comiskey (lighting design), Simon Kenny (composition and sound design) 

Irish production team: Cally Shine and Maura O’Keeffe (producers), Brendan McLoughlin (production manager), Mark Fennell (technical director), Zoë Reynolds (stage manager), Emily Rose Champion (assistant stage manager), Morgan Steele (company manager), Suzanne Sheehan (costume supervisor)

Production photos © Patricio Cassinoni

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Presented with generous support from Penny Brandt Jackson and Thomas Campbell Jackson of The Brandt Jackson Foundation. 

Presented with generous support from Culture Ireland and Tourism Ireland.