The United States vs Ulysses

Are you, like Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses, aroused by the idea of "what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of him or sticking up at you like a hat rack"? If the answer is yes—yes you said yes you will Yes!—then you may wish to hear the arguments presented by both sides in the 1933 court case defending Joyce's book, which is sometimes sexually explicit but always explicitly literary, against American charges of obscenity. Six Irish actors, playing some two dozen characters, go a-courting in Colin Murphy legal drama, directed by Conall Morrison in its U.S. premiere at the Irish Arts Center.