About This Show
City Lights Theater Company of San Jose presents the California Debut of
A Most Notorious Woman, conceived, written and performed by Molly Lyons as part of its Spotlight Series.
Santa Clara University Alumni, Molly Lyons, returns to the Bay Area with her one-woman play, based on the remarkable life of the last great Irish queen, Granuaile or Grace O’Malley. The show takes an intimate look at a life surging with passion and pathos, castles and kings, battles and betrayals, prison and politics. In this play, a prologue and epilogue frame Granuaile’s own fleeting memories – flashes in her imagination, swirls and flourishes of papers, letters and relics – the chapters of a life come to a close by the turbulent Irish sea. That such an extraordinary life should end shrouded in uncertainty; that such a vibrant woman should simply vanish into the mists is the launching point of this deeply passionate and poetic production. The production includes original and traditional music written & performed by Martin Stillion.