Word: nighttown
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ULYSSES IN NIGHTTOWN...
...night of June 16, 1904, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus went on their epic crawl through Dublin's Nighttown whorehouse district-the cuckold Bloom in his extravagant hallucinations of sexual heroism and abasement, the church-dazed intellectual Stephen in a nihilistic trance of guilt. Although James Joyce wrote the Nighttown section of Ulysses in the form of drama, his triple-bottomed language does not translate easily to the stage. It may need the stability of the written page to hold...
When Marjorie Barkentin's dramatization of Nighttown first opened in New York in 1958, there were critical reservations, for all Zero Mostel's brilliance in the role of Bloom. Now Mostel is back in Nighttown, which opened last week on Broadway. There are still plenty of reservations...
...least Nighttown has more frank eroticism than before. Molly, played by Fionnuala Flanagan, lies nude in bed as she delivers the famous "Yes" soliloquy with which Ulysses ends. The slatterns, more lissome than Dublin whores ever were, swagger bare-chested about the stage...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. James Leo Herlihy's novel about the unlikely friendship of a Texas drifter and a Bronx loner has been transformed by Director John Schlesinger (Darling) into a portrait of nighttown America that is notable for the acting of Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight...