THEATRE

B For Baby

By Carmel Winters

Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, October 5

Rating: ****

An Irish play set, for the most part, in a home for people with intellectual disabilities might sound grim.

However, there’s nothing predictable about B For Baby, or the way in which Carmel Winters approaches power relations.

Her fresh, tragi-comic script and vibrant, wholly unsentimental characters shatter preconceptions and encourage audience members to think ...