A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has introduced its Autumn 2025 season, with 12 brand-new productions performing weekly from Monday 1 September to Saturday 22 November 2025 at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and on tour throughout Scotland in Ayr, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Paisley.
With great musicals, hilarious comedies and thrilling dramas, there may be loads for audiences to tuck into alongside their pies and pints.
Opening the season is a brand new hip hop musical retelling the story of William Wallace from the angle of varied historic figures. Co-produced with Raw Material, Wallace is an thrilling collaboration between playwright Rob Drummond and acclaimed rapper-songwriter Dave Hook, that explores Wallace’s contested place on the spectrum between delusion and historical past.
Other productions this season embody Our Brother, a high-stakes drama from Jack MacGregor (BBC Writers Voices Scotland 2025) impressed by the true story of Scottish marxist Malcolm Caldwell who was shot lifeless the identical night time he interviewed notorious Cambodian dictator Pol Pot.
The aggressive nature of Irish dancing is explored in darkish comedy FEIS by Anna McGrath, as a mom does no matter it takes to get her daughter again into performing to assist save the household’s struggling dancing college.
For true crime followers, The Glasgow Poisoner by Tom Cooper & Jen McGregor is a brand new musical impressed by the real-life scandalous story of Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith, who was accused of poisoning her lover however given a uncommon Not Proven verdict, with the reality as to what occurred nonetheless questioned to today.
Also this season, Katy Nixon, author of the David MacLennan Award profitable Jellyfish, returns with new drama Cheapo about two youngsters who play chess of their native KFC, that results in intense revelations which can be something aside from black and white.
A fading starlet holding onto the hope of enjoying the function of a lifetime is the topic of the hilarious one-person musical Maybe Tomorrow by PPP favorite Brian James O’Sullivan (The Last Cabaret on Earth) and performer Hannah Jarrett-Scott (Wild Rose, Pride & Prejudice* (*type of)), in her playwriting debut.
Flick & Pie Go Fishing is a brand new comedy-drama by Laila Noble (Dungeons, Dragons, and The Quest for D***) that asks ‘is love ever enough?’ as a pair’s intense affection for one another is examined by the brutal realities of life, after one in every of them lands in hospital.
In October because the nights attract, two spooky themed productions make their debut. Righ Isagair: The FIsher King is a folks thriller from author and performer Kenny Boyle, coinciding with the Gaelic vacation Samhainn, about two finest buddies who uncover they aren’t alone on the darkish Outer Hebridean moors..
And this 12 months’s Halloween particular Hauns Aff Ma Haunted Bin! Is the newest present by Éimi Quinn (Dookin’ Oot) providing up a hilarious good time as an auntie and niece try to cover a homicide by placing physique elements in baggage prepared for Bin Day.
A playful fashionable tackle a basic, Death of an Influencer is a touching comedy-drama by Matt Anderson, author of final 12 months’s Edinburgh Fringe sell-out Shotgunned, that sees an growing old and mediocre actor confront the truth that his social media whizz of a son is far more profitable than him.
Award-winning poet and playwright Kevin P. GIlday makes his A Play, A Pie and A Pint debut with Gravity, an genuine Glaswegian drama a couple of man who refuses to vacate his flat in a condemned high-rise constructing, and the unconventional social employee decided to assist him earlier than tragedy unfolds.
Closing out the season, Strangers within the Night is a brand new comedy-drama by playwright Alan Muir going down in a retirement village that gives a glimpse into forgotten lives. Blending delusion, magic and recollections, It is the non secular successor of Muir’s acclaimed present The Greatest a couple of Glaswegian who (allegedly) took down Muhammad Ali.
Many outstanding administrators are additionally featured all through the season, together with Orla O’Loughlin (Lear, James V: Katherine), Cora Bissett (What Girls Are Made For), Lesley Hart (River City) and Jennifer Dick (Bard within the Botanics).
Brian Logan, Artistic Director, stated:
“The nights could also be drawing in however the lunchtimes will probably be brighter than ever at Òran Mór this autumn, with a scintillating lineup of pastry-assisted theatre. As regular at PPP, this season balances broad comedy with big-hitting drama, rookies with well-loved skills, exhibits concerning the previous with exhibits thrillingly concerning the right here and now. It connects with previous glories right here at Òran Mór, with a sequel to Alan Muir’s smash-hit The Greatest, a follow-up to David Maclennan Award-winner Jellyfish, and one other stonewall banger from PPP favorite Eimi Quinn.
“We couldn’t be more excited to kick off with Wallace, the hip hop musical they’re already calling (well, I am…) Scotland’s Hamilton. But we look forward as well as back to the past, bringing onboard some of the most exciting new talents in Scottish theatre – including Jack MacGregor, with his electrifying Cambodia-set drama Our Brother, and Anna McGrath with the unique and hilarious FEIS. Throw in some spine-chilling Gaelic folklore, a cracking Glasgow drama in a doomed high-rise, and a generational set-to between TikTok and the stage, and you’ve got twelve weeks of brand new theatre that you really wouldn’t want to miss.”
Tickets are on sale now for all performances at Òran Mór and could be bought on-line via Ticketweb or through Box Office on 0141 357 6200.
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