A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is happy to announce the 18 fantastic new performs as a part of its upcoming Spring 2024 season, co-presented with Aberdeen Performing Arts, Ayr Gaiety, Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival, Macrobert Arts Centre and Traverse Theatre.
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2024 with nearly 600 produced performs and having been the springboard for a lot of completed playwrights, PPP’s new season will shine a highlight on rising writers, lots of whom have by no means written for the lunchtime theatre firm earlier than.
Opening the season at Òran Mór on Monday 19 February is JACK, a darkish comedian monologue by Liam Moffatabout navigating a lifetime of loss, love and hope with the assistance of man’s greatest pal, directed by Gareth Nicholls (Artistic Director at Traverse Theatre).
Also within the programme, Imogen Stirling (Love the Sinner) debuts the fiercely humorous Starving impressed by Scottish activist Wendy Wood, in affiliation with Raw Material; Laurie Motherwell (Sean and Daro Flake it ‘Til They Make It) shares a heartfelt story about pigeons with Roost, and Sylvia Dow (Threads) retells the ups and downs of discovering love as you become old in musical comedy Looking for the One.
As a part of a fee with Sanctuary Queer Arts to carry a brand new queer play to life, recipient Hannah McGregor will inform a narrative of a younger queer Scot assembly the misunderstood Loch Ness Monster in new comedy Ness. Other performs by queer artists this season embody Medea on the Mic, a feminist retelling of the basic Greek tragedy by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh, and Laila Noble’s coming-of-age comedy Dungeons, Dragons, and the Quest for D***.
Also making their PPP debut, Ellen Ritchie brings us darkish comedy Hotdog which sees a younger girl, wearing a hotdog costume, who is set to be the lifetime of the social gathering; Éimi Quinn’s heartfelt comedy The Funeral Club sees a bunch of associates from a teenage most cancers ward go on a diamond heist; Kirsty Halliday
exhibits us the mishaps at a Highland lodge with the farcical Bread & Breakfast, and Mairead A. Martin takes us on a saucy journey of self-discovery in Bridezilla and the Orchard of Sin.
Other highlights embody Lewis Capaldi Goes Tropical, a surreal chaotic comedy by Raymond Wilson a few Glaswegian household whose unlawful pet okapi is purchased by the pop sensation, and Pushin’ Thirty by Dundee based mostly duo Taylor Dyson and Calum Kelly, a brand new comedy with unique songs about approaching the milestone age. Closing out the season, Ross Collins Mackay (Treasure Island) will put a hilarious political spin on a Dickens basic with Party of the Century, which sees a person visited by three ghosts of Conservative previous.
Jemima Levick, Artistic Director, mentioned:
“2024 will be our 20th anniversary and, in the spirit of our beloved late founder David MacLennan who took a shot on many now-established playwrights, it felt right that this season should be centred on emerging writers who deserve to have their sensational plays put on in front of packed-out audiences. “I say this every season but there is truly a play for everyone here, and I hope audiences come away at lunchtime enriched, entertained, and of course nourished from their pies and pints!”
Tickets are on sale now for all performances at Òran Mór and may be bought on-line at
http://www.playpiepint.com or by way of Box Office on 0141 357 600.
