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'a bedrock of the Scottish theatre industry' The Guardian 'a major part of Scotland's new playwriting landscape' The Scotsman After running for fifteen years, the founding principles of A Play, a Pie and a Pint remain steadfast - a new play at lunchtime every week that lasts no more than an hour, accompanied by a pie and a pint. As well as producing thirty-three new plays per year, Òran Mór also biannually hosts its much-adored pantomimes for grown up kids - both Summer and Winter - which have become a staple of the Glasgow theatrical calendar. This first volume collects some of the most popular and critically acclaimed plays from the phenomenal back catalogue. Includes the plays: A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity (Douglas Maxwell) Toy Plastic Chicken (Uma Nada-Rajah) Chic Murray: A Funny Place for A Window (Stuart Hepburn) Ida Tamson (Denise Mina) Jocky Wilson Said (Jane Livingstone and Jonathan Cairney) Do Not Press This Button (Alan Bissett)
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I've been to a few Play/Pie/Pint lunches at the Òran Mór but hadn't seen any of these. Overall they all worked as plays on the page being coherent enough just to read through. I was a little unsure how the staging would be for a few of them and sometimes the story itself just didn't grow me. That was the way of the show though - you never really knew what you were going to get! Three stars for the six plays as a job lot, definitely a mixed bag.
In order of enjoyment:
Jocky Wilson Said by Jane Livingstone and Jonathan Cairney - 5 stars
Chic Murray: A Funny Place for A Window by Stuart Hepburn - 4 stars
Ida Tampson by Denise Mina - 4 stars
Toy Plastic Chicken by Uma Nada-Rajah - 3 stars
A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity by Douglas Maxwell - 2 stars
Do Not Press This Button by Alan Bissett - 2 stars