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### Event Description: Ulysses by Elevator Repair Service

**Event Title:** Ulysses

**Performing Group:** Elevator Repair Service

**Dates and Times:**
- Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 7:30 PM
- Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 2:00 PM

**Venue:**
- Power Center
- 121 Fletcher Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

**Event Overview:**
Join the University Musical Society (UMS) for a captivating performance of James Joyce’s "Ulysses," brought to life by the renowned New York City-based theater company, Elevator Repair Service. Known for their innovative and award-winning productions, such as "Gatz," Elevator Repair Service takes on Joyce’s complex and celebrated novel in an abridged version for their UMS debut.

**Performance Highlights:**
- **Adaptation:** An abridged version of James Joyce’s "Ulysses," a novel that has fascinated and challenged readers for over a century.
- **Concept:** Seven performers begin with a sober reading that quickly descends into a whirlwind of pints, brawls, and debauchery, reflecting the chaotic and fragmented nature of human consciousness.
- **Style:** The performance features madcap antics and a densely layered sound design, offering an eclectic sampling from Joyce’s masterpiece.
- **Direction:** Directed by John Collins and co-directed by Scott Shepherd.

**Ticket Information:**
- **Season Ticket Packages:** Available now.
- **Individual Event Tickets:** On sale starting August 1.
- **Discounts:** Student, senior, and group discounts may be available.
- **Box Office:** Call 734-764-2538 for more information or to purchase tickets.

**About Elevator Repair Service:**
Founded in 1991 by Artistic Director John Collins, Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is known for creating original works through extended periods of collaboration. Their performances combine elements of slapstick comedy, high-tech and low-tech design, literary and found text, and unique choreography. Learn more about ERS at [elevator.org](http://elevator.org).

**Sponsors:**
- Supporting Sponsor: Caitlin Klein and Joe Malcoun

Don't miss this unique theatrical experience that brings one of the most challenging and celebrated works of literature to the stage in a way only Elevator Repair Service can. Secure your tickets now and prepare for an unforgettable journey through Joyce’s "Ulysses."

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Ulysses Elevator Repair Service

University Musical Society

At the height of the Civil Rights Movement in 1965, the progressive queer Black writer and activist James Baldwin met the “Father of American Conservatism” William F. Buckley, Jr., onstage at the Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro.” This confrontation is dramatized in a lean and elegant new production by Elevator Repair Service, a New York troupe that specializes in adaptations of literary and historic texts. Greig Sargeant portrays Baldwin as a verbal virtuoso, his vocal cadence soaring from operatic to hypnotic, infuriated to heartbroken. Buckley, played by Ben Jalosa Williams, bristles at Baldwin’s discussion of white supremacy, his reactionary stance providing a chilling counterpoint to the poet’s impassioned assertions. “Sargeant…is magnetic throughout. You cannot look away from him; you sense he is giving the performance of his life” (The New Yorker).

Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge Elevator Repair Service

University of California, Berkeley

In 1965, two of America’s intellectual giants were invited to debate whether “the American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro,” bringing into sharp focus our country’s deepest divisions.

John Collins

Director

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Ulysses Elevator Repair Service · University Musical Society

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Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge Elevator Repair Service · Cal Performances

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