A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has introduced its Autumn 2023 season that includes 12 thrilling new performs themed round Tales of Coming Residence, co-presented with Aberdeen Performing Arts, Ayr Gaiety, Pitlochry Pageant Theatre and Traverse Theatre.
The season begins on Monday 4 September at Òran Mór, Glasgow with Perpetually Residence, an uplifting new musical play by Pauline Lockhart and Alan Penman about an adopted woman discovering her manner house.
Acclaimed Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell returns to PPP with The Sheriff of Kalamaki, a brand new comedy-drama directed by Creative Director Jemima Levick primarily based upon an actual man who made his house in Zante and polices troublesome Brits overseas.
Different exhibits impressed by actual folks embrace Alice Clark’s play Ship Rats, about her Glaswegian great-great-granny who sailed the world, and Brian James O’Sullivan’s heartwarming Conferences with the Monk that options some humorous holy males.
The extremities of house and id characteristic prominently in each An Act of Union, a sung-through musical by Andy McGregor concerning the attainable risks of militant nationalism in Scotland, and in Meghan Tyler’s FLEG, a brand new comedy directed by Dominic Hill, Creative Director at Residents Theatre, which sees a darkish obsession seize a patriotic couple in Belfast. Additionally this season, a brutal board recreation tears a household aside in Disfunction by Kate Bowen and the hazards of our house playthings are showcased too in Playthrough, a brand new spooky interactive play by Kenny Boyle a couple of cursed online game the place the viewers chooses what is going to occur.
Some thrilling creatives might be making their PPP writing debut this season. Annie George’s poignant Coast sees two half-siblings go on a journey of self-discovery, Peter Stewart showcases how grand narratives and id meet their match in workplace politics in Fortress Fallon, and Glasgow primarily based musical theatre duo Jonathan O’Neill and Isaac Savage will debut Keep, a brand new musical about love, grief and peculiar park-life.
Ending the season in blazing glory, The Weapons of Johnny Diablo by Philip Differ is a brand new farce the place outsized egos attempt to file a radio model of a not too long ago found spaghetti western to hilarious impact.
“I’m extremely enthusiastic about our upcoming Autumn season. ‘Residence’ can imply so many alternative issues to everybody, from our ancestral house to the house that we make for ourselves, and I can’t watch for audiences to see some actually sensible takes on this idea from the best writers, administrators, and creatives in Scotland.” Jemima Levick, Creative Director at A Play, A Pie and A Pint.
