Friday – Fabric 3
Bog Bodies
Bog Bodies is a dark – and slightly absurd – musical tragicomedy, loosely based on the Irish language novel, Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain. It’s about corpses in coffins in a graveyard in Connemara in Ireland. It’s Follies meets The Real Housewives of New York City but set in an Irish graveyard and everyone’s dead. It’s full of corpses struggling to come to terms with being dead amidst the petty gossip from an insular community. It’s irreverent and funny but packs a punch about what it means to not achieve your ambitions.

tragicomedy, dark, absurd
First Draft
Seeking venue and resources for a workshop later in 2025/early 2026
References to dying, death, and necrophilia
Cast of 8-10
Band of 4-5
Meet the Writers

Colm Molloy
Colm Molloy is a composer-lyricist and pianist based in London. His previous works for musical theatre include A THRESHOLD, co-commissioned… Read more

Colm Molloy
Colm Molloy is a composer-lyricist and pianist based in London. His previous works for musical theatre include A THRESHOLD, co-commissioned by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and The BRIT School; LET ME DRESS YOU, commissioned by ALP Musicals for NEWSFEED; WORLD IN PROGRESS, The Other Palace, London; Edinburgh Festival Fringe; FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Theatre Utopia; IT’S WHO YOU KNOW, Shoestring Theatre, Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation. Colm collaborated as a composer-lyricist on the Theatre Royal Stratford East Musical Theatre Workshop with playwright Joyce Lee on REVOLUTION FOR THE SOCIALLY UNINFORMED. He was commissioned by The Sunday Boys in collaboration with George House Trust to write a choral work, WHERE WE ARE, exploring the theme of HIV and the future, which premiered at The Lowry in April 2023. As a musical director, Colm maintains a rewarding position with Liberty Choir, a charity that brings therapeutic provision to prisoners and offenders through singing. His professional credits include THE MALADIES, Almeida Theatre, Yard Theatre; SLOTTED SPOONS DON’T HOLD MUCH SOUP (& OTHER THINGS SONDHEIM TAUGHT ME); TWICE UPON A SONG, Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel. He regularly performs at the Irish Creative Collective’s SIAMSA: Irish Variety Nights.
Team
Colm Molloy – Book, Music, Lyrics, Musical Director
Cast:
Elena Ferrari, Harriet Williams, Cara McHardy, Martin George, Martin Nelson