Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom

 

A Wild Mountain Flower production of the Off-Broadway critically acclaimed performance of Yes! from Ulysses by James Joyce and performed and adapted by Aedin Moloney with renowned author Colum McCann (As The World Spins, Aperigon) and featuring music by the late great Paddy Moloney.

 

A daring theatrical journey into the mind and heart of James Joyce’s most sensual hero – a woman of women, a soul of souls, the indomitable Molly Bloom.

 

With an empty nest, an unfulfilling affair, and a marriage long past its prime, Molly contemplates the love that she and Bloom once shared. Her unsentimental stream of consciousness is a song of songs that reaches backward and forward across the centuries. Molly seeks to reanimate that love of Bloom and ends up discovering herself – as a woman seeking purpose and a desire to be relevant, even after that love is over and her children are gone. Through reflection, Dublin becomes Gibraltar, age becomes youth, and a small room in Ireland becomes the world.

 

It is Ireland in the early hours of June 17th, 1904. Molly Bloom’s husband – the philandering Leopold “Poldy” Bloom – has just come home and fallen asleep in their Dublin row house. Molly – a daughter, a mother, a lover, and a long-suffering wife – patrols the pathways of her wild and leaping consciousness. She is lustful. Scared. Exuberant. Heartbreakingly lonely. Vivaciously reckless. And profoundly funny.

 

 

 

 

 

 **Outer Critics Circle Award** 

BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE 

** Off Broadway Alliance Award** 

Nomination for BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE