Meetings with the Monk is a extremely anticipated new present coming quickly as a part of A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP)’s Autumn season themed round Tales of Coming Home, co-presented with Traverse Theatre.
This heartwarming new one-man play is written by and starring Brian James O’Sullivan, a PPP favorite identified for his hilarious comedy characters ‘Janice and Frank’ and winner of Best Dame on the 2023 UK Panto Awards for ‘Maw Goose’ at Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling.
Meetings with the Monk is a semi-autobiographical play impressed by Brian’s personal visits to an abbey and his three conferences with a specific monk who profoundly affected him and the way he sees life. Whilst Brian will play ‘himself’ and a few humorous holy males, this monk’s traces will probably be pre-recorded by one other actor however performed out in a different way each day to provide audiences a singular lunchtime expertise this season.
The play is directed by Laila Noble, the Resident Director for PPP’s Autumn 2023 season as a part of the Marilyn Imrie Fellowship in affiliation with Stellar Quines Theatre Company.
Brian James O’Sullivan mentioned: “I’ve always been fascinated with spiritual things, people who live alternative lives focused on higher consciousness. I wanted to tell the story of my encounters with these people and show how one of them affected me so profoundly. In this play, I want to push the boundaries of what a lunchtime play can do whilst giving the audience everything they’ve come to expect – a great story, a lot of laughs and maybe a tiny shift in perspective by the end.”
Meetings with the Monk will run at Oran Mor, Glasgow from 9-14 October and can then carry out at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from 17-21 October
