Podcast: Shining a light on Ghost Light

Writer Molly O’Gorman on her new musical Ghost Light

This week our guest on our Runn Radio Show was Molly O’Gorman, the writer of new musical Ghost Light. This new musical that tells the story of a washed-up child star named Kat trapped in a cycle of emotional and financial abuse, and the toll that the nature of being a woman in the public eye takes on her mental health. When her sister returns and finds Kat at her lowest, dissatisfied with her own life, she has to decide whether to go back to the world that destroyed her.

We chat with Molly about the show, and why the portrayal of mental illness on stage can sometimes be done in ways that are not realistic. We also talk about the joys of making fringe theatre and how having to make a show on a very limited budget can often lead to some very inventive ideas.

Ghost Light comes to The Hope Theatre 11 – 29 July. Further information and tickets available here.

Ghost Light

The Hope Theatre

11 – 29 July

I wouldn’t be me without you…

The Moran Sisters captured the hearts of a generation when they were children. Then Charley disappeared from the limelight , and Kat kept going, trapped in an abusive marriage. When Charley returns and sees what has happened to her sister, she has to face up to abandoning her sister, and the new life she might have to sacrifice to help her.

Ghost Light is a new musical about child stardom and the treatment of women and girls in the public eye, shining a harsh light on addiction and abuse, but it is also a story of love that survives, no matter the odds.

Bookings available here.