BABY is a dark comedy about baby envy and assisted human reproduction.
Single, thirty-six year old Camilla (Aisling O’Mara) invites us into a landscape of fertility clinics and pretend pregnancies, while baking a resentful baby shower cake for yet another mammy-to-be. But BABY isn’t a kitchen sink drama: it is a kitchen-gone-surreal, a journey into the body as machine, a theatre that smells like cake.
BABY explores the ethics of baby-making and fertility preservation, the mad desire to have a child without being able to explain why, the feelings we’re not supposed to have. BABY is a pram in the Lidl middle aisle and an unexpected cry into a discounted microfibre cloth. BABY is all your thirty-something year old friends having babies but none of them are yours.
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PRODUCTION
Written by Lianne O’Hara. Directed by Liam Halligan. Sound and Composition by Denis Clohessy. Set and Light Design by Eoin Lennon. Creative Producer Kelly Phelan. Assistant Director Gwenaelle Gilet. Video by Evan Flynn for it Productions. Cast Aisling O’Mara.
Lianne O’Hara is a playwright and poet. Her play FLUFF explores sex work in Ireland and had a sell-out run at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022. Her writing is published in Winter Papers, The Rialto, Poetry Ireland Review, The London Magazine, and elsewhere.
Aisling O’Mara recently appeared in Nancy Harris’ SOMEWHERE OUT THERE YOU directed by Wayne Jordan and in Brendan Behan’s THE QUARE FELLOW directed by Tom Creed at the Abbey Theatre.
VENUE & DATES
The New Theatre, 43 Essex St E, Temple Bar, Dublin, D02 Y306, Ireland. Presented as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 ( 7–22 September). The performance is approximately 60 minutes in length.
17 September 18.00, preview, €11
19–21 September 18.00, €16/€14 conc.
20 September 13.00, €16/€14 conc.
21 September 15.30, €16/€14 conc.
MEDIA
Lianne O’Hara on BABY for RTE Culture
Lianne O’Hara and Aisling O’Mara on FM104
IG: @baby.theplay | TikTok: @baby.theplay | X: @babytheplay
17-21 September, The New Theatre
