2022 | commissioned by between feathers ensemble 

In Joyce's Ulysses, the most important thing is the act of narration, which means that the situations experienced by the three protagonists, both the most banal and the most deep, harmonize so naturally to build one of the most incredible stories of the twentieth century.
HADES is a monodrama based on episode 6 in which Leopold Bloom goes with some fellows to Dignam's funeral. There are three important moments (the three scenes of the monodrama) in which Leopold makes his particular journey to the Greek underworld, making one of the many parallels that the book has with Homer's Odyssey. The first is the journey to Prospect Cemetery in the black carriage, where, accompanied by three other characters, our protagonist is tormented again and again by a series of terrible memories from the past: premature death, infidelity and suicide. The black carriage becomes a suffocating space for Bloom, from which he wishes to escape no matter what.
The second scene, already in Prospect Cemetery, is divided in the same way into three short speeches with an ironic, playful and critical tone towards religion and the church. Bloom is still uncomfortable, despite the fact that the space is now wider than in the carriage.
In the third scene, in the last speech, Bloom makes a reference to one of the phrases Martha Clifford writes to him in one of the hot-dirty letters they secretly send to each other: "back to the world again".
Leopold sees the gates of the cemetery open, and is ready to return to the world again, he still has so much to live and feel.
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