Ulysses

Puppet design and coaching commission

The Abbey Theatre, Dublin 2017-2018

A superb theatrical homage to James Joyce's chronicle of Dublin life.
Drunken dancing, outrageous clowning, foul mouthed puppets and live music
all set in a ballroom with the audience sat cabaret style on the stage.

I made a number of puppets for this adaptation of Ulysses, a notoriously
difficult novel to adapt and many characters were cut as the script developed.
Rudy, the lost son of Bloom, was a mournful full figure puppet who appeared in
ghostly visions as does a mask of Stephen Dedalus's mother. The abusive Citizen
and the four ventriloquist characters who appear in Barney Kiernan’s pub may
not the most beautiful puppets I have made but they certainly suited the bawdy
Vaudeville scenes as they lurched drunkenly amongst the audience.

"Gavin Glover made wonderful puppets.."
Dermot Bolger BBC Radio4 Front Row 2018