bloominauschwitz

Writer Richard Fredman

Director Rachel Aspinwall

Performer Patrick Morris

Set and Costume Designer Stefanie Mueller

Sound Designer Yas Clarke

Lighting Designer Paul Bourne

Production Manager Ashley Day

‘an outstanding study of our need for identity, and of how that need can overflow into hatred and horror. This is not just something that happened in history books. It is happening now.’ Edinburgh Reporter, August 2018

bloominauschwitz imagines Leopold Bloom breaking free of James Joyce’s great novel ‘Ulysses’ to re-discover his Jewish roots. Bloom bounds back and forth through time, straight through Europe’s faultlines of identity, belonging and collective memory. bloominauschwitz is an explosive piece of theatre right from the start. Mixing clownish antics with high drama, rich text and powerful imagery, it features Menagerie’s own Patrick Morris in a tour-de-force role as Bloom.

The production climaxed in 2022 with a week of performances at the New Theatre, Dublin as international guests of the Bloomsday Festival. Following sellout performances there in 2019, it was a great privilege to bring Bloom home for a final time.

bloominauschwitz premiered at Hotbed 2013 at Cambridge Junction. It since toured England, played at the Edinburgh Fringe, at Manchester’s Festival of Leaving and the International Festival of World Theatre in Brno, Czechia, alongside the aforementioned Bloomsday Festival.

Photos by Andrew Wilkinson and Robert Vystrcil