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Fly Me To The Moon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 16th Oct, 2019
Having this year reached the notable landmark of their 500th new production, the team behind the award-winning lunchtime theatre phenomenon that is “A Play, A Pie and a Pint” i…
It's Behind You!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 13th Feb, 2018
Alan McHugh has played in enough pantomimes down the years to ensure It’s Behind You! reeks of authenticity, albeit the heightened theatrics of the genre.
Confessional
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 4th May, 2017
The comedic tone of David Weir’s Confessional is clear from the start; as Schubert’s beautiful Ave Marie fades into silence, “Good Catholic” Kevin—or, as he puts it, th…
The Beaches of St Valery
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 13th Mar, 2017
Three-quarters of a century on, there are still stories of the Second World War that aren’t as well known as they should, but Stuart Hepburn’s new play—while promoted as t…
69 Shades of Gay
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 13th Feb, 2017
“I’m so excited”—that iconic 1982 hit by the Pointer Sisters—is an apt intro to a show with a predominantly female audience that’s already wound up to have a good ti…
Dusty Won't Play
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 8th Feb, 2017
18 years after her death, “blue-eyed soul singer” Dusty Springfield remains many things to many people—not least a gay icon, thanks to her emotional fragility and memorabl…
Dr Johnson Goes to Scotland
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Oran Mor
- 31st Oct, 2016
A risk when putting any historical figure on stage—let alone a writer and thinker of the calibre of Dr Samuel Johnson—is that using their own words makes them appear less a …
Walking on Walls
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 20th Oct, 2016
There’s no hanging about with Morna Pearson’s Walking On Walls; when the lights come up, we see a bespectacled woman observing a man who’s bound on an office chair, tape a…
Breaking The Ice
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 6th Oct, 2016
It’s fitting, in the weeks running up to the latest Arctic Circle Assembly (running from 7-9 October in Reykjavik, Iceland) that the team behind A Play, a Pie and a Pint opted…
Role Shift
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 23rd May, 2016
Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company continues to lead the way in producing theatre that’s fully accessible to people with physical and/or sensory impairments, both …
Second Hand
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 3rd May, 2016
It’s not immediately obvious where Second Hand is located; Jonathan Scott’s set for this latest production in the Spring 2016 season of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint”, at Gl…
CauseWay
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 26th Jan, 2016
“A dastardly attempt was made in the early hours of yesterday morning by suffragists to fire and blow up Burns’s Cottage, Alloway, the birthplace of the national poet,” rep…
Ali Bawbag and the Four Tealeafs
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 7th Dec, 2015
Pantomime is arguably the most self-aware and self-mocking of theatrical forms, with the most successful shows seeing cast and audience mutually shattering any metaphorical four…
No Nothing
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 27th Apr, 2015
Alan Spence is not the first to imagine a meeting between two famous people from different worlds, though there’s certainly a whiff of wishful thinking in this thoughtful, if …
Vlad the Impaler
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 30th Apr, 2015
Richard Crane’s latest play takes as its subject the life of Vlad the Impaler, famous Romanian prince and the inspiration behind Dracula, blending folk songs, the recreation of …
Broth
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 9th Apr, 2015
It’s fitting that, this Eastertide, a resurrection of sorts lies at the heart of this latest collaboration between Glasgow’s Òran Mór and Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre.
Fat Alice
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- Oran Mor / The Lemon Tree / Traverse Theatre
- 31st Mar, 2015
Acclaimed playwright Alison Carr’s latest offering, Fat Alice, opens on a familiar scene.
Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 27th Mar, 2015
Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha is the first of three plays in this season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint from Russia and Ukraine, curated by playwright Nicola McCartney who also direct…
The Day The Pope Emptied Croy
- Review
- ★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 20th Mar, 2015
After a very strong debut with Squash in last season’s A Play, A Pie and a Pint, playwright Martin McCormick returns with his second play, The Day the Pope Emptied Croy.
Leviathan
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 12th Mar, 2015
Leviathan, produced in association with Sherman Cymru and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, is among the best plays to appear on the Òran Mór stage this season or last.
Lifesaving
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 5th Mar, 2015
Lifesaving is an entertaining and surreal hour of theatre which focuses on the lives of two teenage siblings, Sandra and Jamie.
Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon
- Review
- ★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 25th Feb, 2015
Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon is an account of what happens when “our man” (Òran Mór veteran Billy Mack) spends four weeks in Japan.
Netting
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor / The Lemon Tree
- 20th Feb, 2015
They say that, while you can choose your friends, you can’t choose your family; even when you pick a partner, you have no say about the family that comes along with them.
Hooray for All Kinds of Things
- Review
- ★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 25th Feb, 2015
Hooray for all Kind of Things tells the true story of Icelandic stand-up comedian Jòn Gnarr’s decision to run for office in the Reykjavík mayoral elections of 2010.
Butterfly
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 2nd Feb, 2015
Men – especially working class men from the West of Scotland – are not known for expressing their emotions, instead hiding behind either brutish silence or dry humour.
We Can All Agree to Pretend This Never Happened
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 11th Feb, 2015
As an ongoing celebration of –and opportunity for –new playwriting talent, A Play, a Pie and a Pint – originated at the Òran Mór in Glasgow’s West End – has decided to m…
The King's Kilt
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 2nd Mar, 2015
Rona Munro’s comedy drama, originally produced for Radio 4 in 2008, tells the story of a period in the life of Walter Scott when he was tasked with commissioning a kilt for King …
Theatre Uncut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 20th Nov, 2014
In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays…
Bridge
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 27th Feb, 2015
Bridge opens with a woman sitting on an isolated bridge being harassed by a stranger who won’t let her be.
The Happiest Day of Brendan Smilie's Life
- Review
- ★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 27th Feb, 2015
The Happiest Day of Brendan Smillie’s Life opens on sweet, strange Brendan (Ross Allan) who, with the aid of labelled paper plates, is attempting to design the optimal buffet ar…
Crash
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 23rd Oct, 2014
Andy Duffy’s new one-man play is a psychological drama following the life of a stock market trader during the economic crash.
Flying With Swans
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- Gaiety Theatre, Ayr / Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 6th Nov, 2014
Flying with Swans focuses on three women, all now well into retirement, who reignite their old tradition of taking the ferry to watch the arrival of the whooper swans as they mig…
Squash
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 18th Nov, 2014
Squash is the third play in this Autumn’s “A Play, A Pie and a Pint”season at Òran Mór produced in association with Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—following on from Flame…
Mrs Barbours Daughters
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 4th Mar, 2015
Mrs Barbour’s Daughters centres around Mary, an elderly blind woman who refuses to move out of her tenement flat and into her niece’s home.
Three Sisters
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 17th Oct, 2014
Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters focuses on three refined and cultured young women—Olga, Maria and Irina—forced to relocate to a rural province because of their father’s work…
Flame Proof
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 30th Sep, 2014
Lesley Hart’s latest play begins when Health and Safety Officer Lyssa is disturbed from her work of securing a wedding marquee at three in the morning by Buddy, the alcoholic bro…
Flame Proof
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 17th Oct, 2014
Lesley Hart’s latest play begins when Health and Safety Officer Lyssa is disturbed from her work of securing a wedding marquee at three in the morning by Buddy, the alcoholic bro…
It's Only Words
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 23rd Sep, 2014
It’s Only Words tells the story of Mrs Moore, an old woman who has locked herself in a public bathroom while she thinks about her life and the choices she has made.
Miss Shamrock’s World of Glamorous Flight
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 17th Sep, 2014
The third play in Oran Mor’s Autumn/Winter Season is a breath of fresh air, a nuanced and enjoyable picture of a thoroughly likeable character.
A Terrible Beauty
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 9th Sep, 2014
A thorough, measured account of a key moment in the history of Ireland, this opening production in the new run of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint” at Oran Mor in Glasgow’s West En…
Craig Hill - Tartan About!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lucy Hoggan
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Oran Mor
- 16th Aug, 2013
You just know that any show that begins with a bald man in a kilt gyrating camply to Madonna with a male audience member is going to be a winner.
Richard Herring - We're All Going to Die!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Joe Walsh
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Oran Mor
- 4th Aug, 2013
At a time when high-profile comedy seems frequently to constitute pointing out things that people do, Richard Herring’s satirical wit and eye for originality – not to mention h…
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