Lighting up Maeve Binchy’s debut on stage

There is a misunderstanding that actors want to be famous, says Clelia Murphy, who stars in the stage adaptation of Light a Penny Candle, Maeve Binchy’s first novel, published in 1982.

Murphy, who was one of the participants in the recent Dancing with the Stars and played the role of Niamh on RTÉ’s Fair City for 22 years, says: “There isn’t a bone in my body that wants to be famous. The skill that I have is in telling stories. It just happens to be through the medium of performance. Not every actor wants to be famous. It happens to be a by-product of acting.”