by In Trieste
Ulysses ‘Nausicaa’ episode was performed at Pedocin by Sergio Rubini and Maria Grazia Plos on 16 June, the day the book takes place.
The “Nausicaa” episode takes place at twilight, around 8:00 pm, on the Sandymount strand, where Mr. Bloom is having a rest from a rather busy and draining day.
After escaping the Citizen by carriage at the end of the “Cyclops” episode, Bloom and Martin Cunningham visited Mrs. Dignam to review her late husband’s insurance policy. In The Odyssey, a shipwrecked, storm-tossed, and exhausted Odysseus washes ashore in Phaeacia, where Princess Nausicaa finds him naked and brackish.
Other women run away from him in a mix of disgust and fear, but Nausicaa, perceiving the nobility beneath Odysseus’s ragged surface, stays and helps him, providing respite from his arduous journey.
The event was organized by Il Rossetti theater, together with University of Trieste and Museuo Svevo & Joyce. The events will continue until Sunday night and you can find the whole program here: https://museojoycetrieste.it/bloomsday/bloomsday-2022/
