A Play, A Pie and A Pint Volume One
The founding principles of A Play, a Pie and a Pint remain steadfast – a new play at lunchtime every week that lasts no more than an hour, accompanied by a pie and a pint. As well as producing 33 new plays per year, Òran Mór also biannually hosts its much-adored pantomimes for grown up kids – both Summer and Winter – which have become a staple of the Glasgow theatrical calendar.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint Volume One collects some of the most popular and critically acclaimed plays from the phenomenal back catalogue. Includes the plays:
TOY PLASTIC CHICKEN
by Uma Nada-Rajah
At Edinburgh Airport, a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. A woman is screened for domestic radicalisation, while her interrogators decide to perform violent and radical act of their own. Based on a true story, Toy Plastic Chicken is a blackly comedic exploration of degradation and revolt.
Winner of 2022 Kavya Prize
Original cast production of Toy Plastic Chicken, Neshla Caplan, David James Kirkwood and Anna Russell-Martin.
A RESPECTABLE WIDOW TAKES TO VULGARITY
by Douglas Maxwell
Annabelle strikes up an unlikely relationship with her dead husband’s potty-mouthed employee, Jim. She begins to enter into Jim’s un-finishing school, liberating her own voice through vulgarity, Annabelle gets herself heard.
Original cast production of A Respectable Widow Takes To Vulgarity, Anne Kidd and Craig McLean.
CHIC MURRAY: A FUNNY PLACE FOR A WINDOW
by Stuart Hepburn
The “Comedian’s Comedian” Chic Murray passed away in Edinburgh on the night of the 29th of January, 1985. In a career that had taken him from an engineer’s apprenticeship in Kincaid’s Shipyard, Greenock, to the top of the bill at The London Palladium, Chic was a complete one-off.
On what is his last day on this earth, Chic takes a musical look back at the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies of his glittering, but tragically flawed career.
Original cast production of Chic Murray: A Funny Place For A Window, Dave Anderson, Maureen Carr and Brian James O’Sullivan.
IDA TAMPSON
by Denise Mina
If they gave them out for brave service during the Drug Wars Ida Tamson would have a Victoria Cross. Her daughter died of an OD and Ida is raising her kids but one boy’s daddy is The Flesher and the Flesher wants the boy back because he is leaving for Cyprus.
Can Ida convince him to leave without the boy? Who should she trust with the story? ‘Take a Break’ or the Guardian?
Original cast production of Ida Tampson, Elaine C. Smith, Paul James Corrigan & Joy McAvoy
JOCKY WILSON SAID
by Jane Livingstone and Jonathan Cairney
It’s 1979 and rising Scottish darts star Jocky Wilson has travelled to America to play a series of exhibition matches. When he misses his ride to the next event however, Jocky finds himself alone and on the road. All the diminutive Fifer really wants is to get back home but there’s a long and challenging journey ahead…
Original cast production of Jocky Wilson Said, Grant O’Rourke.
DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON
by Alan Bissett
Marie and Ben, fellow commuters, fall into friendly conversation on a train, but things turn comical and then dark as Ben realises far too late that Marie is playing a psychological game with him. Enter Terry, an unsuspecting stranger, full of swagger, who is about to find himself caught up in their game and way out of his depth.
Original cast production of Do Not Press This Button, Gemma McElhinney, David Rankine and Cameron Fulton.
Reviews
‘…an extraordinary engine of new writing and new talent. For established writers it’s a chance to experiment … new writers it’s a chance to be heard. The restrictions of the form are simple – small cast, 45 mins, limited set; but, within those restrictions, a whole world is possible. A Play, A Pie and A Pint is one of those simple ideas that changes everything.’
David Greig‘A bedrock of the Scottish theatre industry’
The Guardian‘A major part of Scotland’s new playwriting landscape’
The Scotsman