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Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan — double-exposure portrait in neon-pink ink
Daisy Bevan — Billy · Lorien Haynes — Cat

If I Sing Loud Enough

A very British comedy about grief.

A live staged readingDirected by Saffron BurrowsThursday 13 August 2026
Produced by Lorien Haynes & Karen Paul
Billy & Cat

The partner,
and the best friend

Billy and Cat are the two people Liv left behind — and the only two who really understand. A year of getting through it together: the bickering, the cluster-fucks, the laughing at exactly the wrong moment. Where grief takes them, neither could have planned — and Liv isn't done with either of them yet.

A special event · Hampstead NW3
Thursday
13 August 2026
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Book — 55 seats
The story
Liv is gone.

She leaves behind the two people who loved her most — Billy, her partner, and Cat, her best friend — and a year to get through without her.

So they get through it together. The wake that won't end. The row in the IKEA car park. A whole life to be sorted, boxed and given away, with neither of them ready to begin. They bicker. They keep each other upright. They compete, quietly, over who is allowed to miss her more.

Grief, it turns out, doesn't behave. And the year takes the two of them somewhere neither saw coming.

If I Sing Loud Enough is Lorien Haynes' comedy about the part of loss no one warns you about — sharp, funny, brutal and quintessentially British. Adapted from her play Good Grief.

For one night, Daisy Bevan and Lorien Haynes perform it live on stage — a staged reading, script in hand, in the room. Not a screening and not a broadcast: the play, out loud, fifty-five seats deep.

★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Evening Standard
★★★★ The Telegraph

Two people. One impossible year.
And a question, shouted into the ether — if I sing loud enough… she'll come back.

In the room

July rehearsals

Lorien Haynes & Daisy Bevan
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
Lorien Haynes and Daisy Bevan in rehearsal, July 2026
The company
Saffron Burrows
Director

Saffron Burrows

Actor/director across film, theatre and television — from Troy and The Bank Job to Mozart in the Jungle — with stage work at the National, the Almeida and the Lincoln Center, where she played Rebekah Brooks in Corruption. Saffron directed Lorien opposite Jason Isaacs in the award-winning feature Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men.

Lorien Haynes
Writer · plays Cat

Lorien Haynes

Actor, writer and director. Good Grief — the film this play was developed from — was shortlisted for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, then staged by New York Stage and Film and Cherry Lane Theater, New York.

Daisy Bevan as Billy
Plays Billy

Daisy Bevan

Daisy Bevan is a London actor — most recently Josie in Lena Dunham's Too Much for Netflix. Her screen work spans The Two Faces of January, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness and the BBC's The Outcast.

Karen Paul
Producer · Stellar Theatre

Karen Paul

Executive producer and co-founder of Stellar Theatre, creating bold new theatre through collaborations with exceptional artists. If I Sing Loud Enough continues Stellar's much-loved partnership with Lorien Haynes.

Produced by Lorien Haynes & Karen Paul · Bermondsey Street Productions & Stellar Theatre

One night only
Thursday
13 August 2026
Doors 7:00pm · Show 7:30pm · £25 · 55 seats
28 Heath Street · Hampstead NW3 · Hampstead Station · Northern Line
Book — 55 seats