Actor Aedín Moloney will bring her one-woman performance, Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom, to the city’s Town Hall Theatre next Tuesday, May 30.

Aedín adapted this piece from the Penelope chapter in James Joyce’s Ulysses in collaboration with Irish author, Colum McCann who, like her is based in New York.  The music for the show,  in which she journeys into the mind and heart of Molly, was especially recorded by Aedín’s father, Paddy Moloney. The founder and leader of The Chieftains, he died  in 2021.

In the early hours of June 17, 1904, Molly Bloom’s husband – the philandering Leopold ‘Poldy’ –  has just come home and fallen asleep.

With an empty nest, an unfulfilling affair and a marriage long past its prime, Molly embarks on a stream of consciousness journey as she contemplates the love that she and Bloom once shared.

She seeks to reanimate that love and ends up discovering herself as a woman seeking purpose and a desire to be relevant, even after their love is over and her children are gone.

Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom was named winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for best solo performance when it premiered in New York.

The project has been more than 20 years in the making.

“I’ve been fascinated by Ulysses since my youth, and after 30 years of exploring the character’s depths, it was Colum McCann who inspired me to turn those musings into reality,” Aedín explains.

She began working on the adaptation in 2003 and recorded the full monologue with music by her father in 2017. Colum McCann partnered with her to complete the adaptation in 2019.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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