Packer with voice of an angel
PARENTS and children aged six upwards are guaranteed a good night out at the Everyman in Cork where The Ark and Theatre Lovett is staging The Girl who Forgot to Sing Badly from tomorrow to July 1. This critically acclaimed one-man show, performed by Louis Lovett, is in demand internationally. Next year, it is going to Broadway where it will play in the Victory Theatre. It has also been invited to Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The play is about a young girl named Peggy O’Hegarty who works with her parents. They pack fruit into tins and furniture onto trucks. “They’re very talented packers,” says Lovett. “Peggy’s parents once packed a grand piano into a container usually set aside for jelly sweets. One day, the phone stops ringing and there’s no work. Peggy’s parents take it badly, resigning themselves to their fate.”
