Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy at the Toledo Museum of Art Little Theater

Few things are more vulnerable and honest than pillow talk— those sleepy, nostalgic moments where two lovers reminisce. In Ulysses, James Joyce’s lauded modernist novel modeled on Homer’s “Odyssey,” pillow talk is captured in the final chapter when a bedded Molly Bloom, the wife of the main character Leopold, delivers her long reverie of when she first knew she was in love. Her whispers— which begin and end with “yes”— affirm her sensuality and femininity, ending the novel in Molly’s emotional acquiescence. See the monologue during Irene Alby’s (stage director and associate theater lecturer at the University of Toledo) performance of Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy, a fitting end to the Toledo Museum of Art’s marathon reading of Ulysses (June 10-16, for more info, see Book Notes on pg. 27).

6pm | Thursday | June 16.
Toledo Museum of Art Little Theater | 2445 Monroe St.
419-255-8000 | toledomuseum.org | Free 

Few things are more vulnerable and honest than pillow talk— those sleepy, nostalgic moments where two lovers reminisce. In Ulysses, James Joyce’s lauded modernist novel modeled on Homer’s “Odyssey,” pillow talk is captured in the final chapter when a bedded Molly Bloom, the wife of the main character Leopold, delivers her long reverie of when she first knew she was in love. Her whispers— which begin and end with “yes”— affirm her sensuality and femininity, ending the novel in Molly’s emotional acquiescence. See the monologue during Irene Alby’s (stage director and associate theater lecturer at the University of Toledo) performance of Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy, a fitting end to the Toledo Museum of Art’s marathon reading of Ulysses (June 10-16, for more info, see Book Notes on pg. 27).

6pm | Thursday | June 16.
Toledo Museum of Art Little Theater | 2445 Monroe St.
419-255-8000 | toledomuseum.org | Free