![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the playwright’s point of view, that play wrote itself and she could hardly keep up as the words demanded to be put onto the page. The narrator’s first play - Summer with Lucy - was also Molly’s first glowing success. Molly is in New York, having a holiday before heading to London to record an audio book of Adam Bede - while our narrator lives in London, she and Molly fairly often swap residences since both have movable careers. ![]() The narrator is in temporary residence in Molly Fox’s terrace house in Dublin, trying to get a start on her 20th play. Molly Fox’s Birthday is a “one-day” book in that all of the action takes place on a single June 21, the birthday of the actor which only her brother is allowed to acknowledge (as we actors get older, the parts get harder to find). The unnamed narrator of this intriguing novel is a playwright, the Molly of the title is an actor (we don’t call them actresses) - and the visitors who pointed me to this book were right. A number of visitors to this blog drew my attention to Molly Fox’s Birthday after my From Page to Stage posts indicated my interest in theater and drama and the way that plays became productions. ![]()
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