OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Carmel Winters 

• Setting

  A residential care home for people with severe learning disabilities.

• Notes

  'B For Baby' was originally commissioned by Theatre Lovett

• Synopsis

  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 dirty 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.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  2

• Total

  4

• Cast Notes

  Cast doubling required.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  30 September 2010

• Production Notes

  Produced as part of the 2010 Dublin Theatre Festival.

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Venue Notes

  Performed on the Peacock stage.

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.