“A delightfully imaginative one-man children’s play by Tasmanian writer Finegan Kruckemeyer, given a stunning performance by Louis Lovett in a five-star production by director Lynne Parker.”

Irish Mail on Sunday

Peggy O’Hegarty and her parents are packers.  They squeeze fruit into tins, foxes into boxes, even bikes into brown paper bags.  And all the while Peggy sings with the voice of an angel – a grossly unfortunate angel, who can’t sing at all.

But one day work stops working, and the jobs stop coming, and Peggy steps outside to find that everyone in her city has gone!

Ingenious performer Louis Lovett leads the audience on an untamed adventure that crosses snowy lands and wild seas.  As Peggy desperately tries to save the day, we learn about love, loss, the reassurance of goats, and the courage to sing gloriously on or off-key.

Louis Lovett talks about The Girl who Forgot to Sing Badly © The Ark

Creative Team

• Written By: Finegan Kruckemeyer
• Directed By: Lynne Parker
• Performed By: Louis Lovett
• Produced By: Muireann Ahern
• Set Design By: Paul O’Mahony
• Costume Design By: Joan O’Clery
• Lighting Design By: John Comiskey and Sinéad Wallace
• Sound & Music Design By: Carl Kennedy

Mrs C wants a baby not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdressers scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and “a big head of auld curls”. All of them want their own place in the world. And if they can’t find it, they’ll create one of their own. Join B and D in the care home where they are residents, and where Mrs C is a carer, on their special – “very fecking special” – journey towards happiness.

Presented by the Abbey Theatre as part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, B for Baby is a sharp-witted new play that tenderly touches the taboo and invites you to rediscover the joy of make-believe.

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Creative Team

• Written By: Carmel Winters
• Directed By: Mikel Murfi
• Performed By: Louis Lovett and Michelle Moran