The Balloonatics Bloomsday Nightblue 2025

The Balloonatics’ nightcap performance will be the performance of a dramatised reading from Joyce’s Ulysses at Wynn’s Hotel on Monday, June 16th at 7.30pm. We then open up to the floor and invite you to read a short passage from Joyce’s epic celebration of daily life.

This year the big group of six (actors Mark Wale, Paul O’Hanrahan, Mick Greer, Paul Dornan, Chris Bilton and musician John Goudie) present ‘The Many Trials of Leopold Bloom’ in which Bloom finds himself in a shady part of Dublin at night and his desires, guilt and fears are converted into comedy nightmares and fantasies.

The show is based on the opening half of the ‘Circe’ episode of Ulysses which takes place in the late evening of June 16th and is set in Nighttown, Joyce’s name for the notorious ‘Monto’ area of Dublin where Bloom is looking for Stephen Dedalus.

Tickets are €15.