![]() ![]() ![]() Their relationship, as portrayed in the novel, was deep, lasting until Synge's untimely death in 1909, not yet 39 years of age. Her love affair with playwright John Millington Synge was deemed as scandalous as his play "The Playboy of the Western World" by Irish society, which could not see beyond the differences in their social classes. Molly is a real-life character, one of the most famous actress of the Dublin stage in the early 1900s. Throughout the pages of this novel, the actress Maire (Molly) O'Neill, nee Mary Allgood, like a theater ghost, relives the important moments of her life as she moves toward its tragic end. This aptly titled novel refers to one of the more common of those superstitions: a light that is left on in a theater to allow its resident ghosts to perform on stage after the theater closes, thus appeasing them and preventing them from wreaking havoc on the production or its audience. On Jul 19 2016, The Old Library Bookshop said: ![]()
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