“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

This production of The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly was originally commissioned by The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, Ireland and produced by The Ark in association with Theatre Lovett.

Creative Team

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

''The House that Jack Filled is laugh out loud funny and entertaining, due in the main to Lovett's animation of Kruckemeyer's wacky script, as directed by Ahern, in which a judiciously placed pause in a chef's patter about a pig (while spooning chopped carrots into an upturned lamp) brings the house down''

Irish Theatre Magazine

Jack McNally’s Hotel has 13 rooms (all of them sunny) for 13 people (all of them different).

There is old Mrs Chelsea, who is noticeably wobbly, Norma and Dorma the Italian twins, and Mr Truro who plays the spoons. Lionel O’Brien talks about trains, and his son Little Lionel does too. Brenda and Michael can seem a bit rough – but their hearts are as big as their record collection. Melanie Woodcott dreams of the sea, while Jack McNally dreams of Melanie Woodcott.

But when the visitors stop visiting, and the dust settles on the furniture, Jack McNally must breathe life, love and laughter into this hilarious hotel. He takes a deep breath, puts on a wig, and opens the door…

Download and enjoy the Theatre Lovett Trumpeter Issue 1 (Printable PDF) programme to accompany the show (handy hint: print it double sided to create a booklet).

Creative Team

• Written By: Finegan Kruckemeyer
• Directed By: Muireann Ahern
• Performed By: Louis Lovett & Emer McMahon
• Set and Lighting Design By: John Comiskey
• Music and Sound Design By: Carl Kennedy
• Costume Design By: Niamh Lunny

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.

 >> Click here to visit the Abbey Theatre’s website for more information

Creative Team

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