James Joyce once declared that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be wholly reconstructed from the text of his famously impenetrable opus, Ulysses. On Wednesday night, or Bloomsday night rather, the Dublin of Joyce was thus faithfully restored in Vineyard Haven.
Bid for a bachelor to be your date, complete with manners and trade certificate, providing services in carpentry, air conditioning, landscaping and even music, at the Men in Kilts fundraiser at Mediterranean Restaurant in Oak Bluffs on Thursday, June 24.
With food, cash bar (it’s an over-21 event) and the rocking southern bluegrass music of Christopher Robin, this event is raising funds to send the high school drama troupe to Scotland to perform at the Festival Fringe in August.
Director MJ Bruder Munafo is seeking little fairies and wood sprites for this season’s Vineyard Playhouse production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Girls and boys ages 5 to 10 and under 4’9” tall are invited to apply for up to 12 open roles in the production. The children will perform an average of twice a week on a flexible rotating schedule agreed upon by the parents and the stage manager.
Tisbury becomes Dublin on Wednesday night as Arts and Society — which organizes what is apparently the oldest continuous celebration of Bloomsday on the planet — presents its 32nd annual Bloomsday Celebration of Music and Drama based on the texts of James Joyce.
The program is on June 16, at 8 p.m. at Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. All tickets are $15 and may be purchased at the door.
The Vineyard Playhouse opens its popular summer series of new work — the Monday Night Special — with the reading of a new play by actor, director and playwright Thomas Kee, Inside My Hidden Room, on Monday, June 14 At 7:30 p.m. at the playhouse, 24 Church street in downtown Vineyard Haven.
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