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Baby is a dark comedy about baby envy and unsolicited advice from strangers.
Camilla is 36 and she wants a baby.
With dark humour and honest vulnerability, Baby delves into baby envy and pretend pregnancies, while journeying into a landscape of fertility clinics and assisted human reproduction.
Baby is full of unsolicited advice from strangers. Baby is seeing a pram in the Lidl middle aisle and having 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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Baby premiered in the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2024 and won the Bewley’s Café Theatre Little Gem Award. Baby was developed at FRINGE LAB with the support Dublin Fringe Festival. Baby also received developmental support from Irish Theatre Institute and Pavilion Theatre.
"A breathtakingly vulnerable portrayal ... A masterly job … it’s one that so many people should see." - Irish Times
"Sensitive yet truthful, Lianne O’Hara’s one-woman show gets straight to the point. Camilla’s story is real, relatable, and laced with vulnerability. But it’s also quite funny. Halligan and O’Hara know what they are doing. Meanwhile, Purcell masters a tricky role, walking a delicate line between playful comedy and tragic melodrama. O’Hara (a terrific playwright) and Purcell (a tremendous performer) have created something special here, something honest. It deserves everything good that comes its way." - Chris Wasser, Sunday Independent
