Lippy gets great word-of-mouth

THE play Lippy was a cult hit when it first appeared, briefly, at the Dublin Fringe Festival, in 2013. It won best production at the Irish theatre awards that year (disclosure: this writer was one of the judges).

It has since been to New York and the Edinburgh Fringe, with a run in London to come.

Before that, via a run on the Abbey Theatre’s Peacock stage, Lippy has a chance to cease being the best new play no-one has seen, and to get the audience it deserves.