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A Play, A Pie an A Pint Autumn / Winter Season 2013

The 19th Season of A Play A Pie and A Pint at Oran Mor. (top of Byres Road, G12)

Fourteen new plays to meet every possible taste: musicals, comedies histories, tragedies and a historic first co-production with Mull Theatre in Gaelic – there will be English subtitles for all! There are plays by first timers, plays by writers in the early stages of their careers and plays by some of our best-known and best-loved playwrights. Another first is three plays being co-produced with Aberdeen Performing Arts which will go to the Lemon Tree in the Granite City when they leave Oran Mor. The season will end  with Oran Mor’s Christmas Panto.

Looking good. 🙂

Trouble and Shame

By David Ireland
Mon 2nd – Sat 7th Sept

Hunter Baxter’s a Glaswegian with big plans for Northern Ireland. The First Minister and the Deputy First Minister are from opposite ends of the political spectrum and they’re not getting on, but Hunter thinks he knows how to help. The answer is to kidnap them.

Divided

By Ian Pattison
Mon 9th – Sat 14th Sept

Born in Glasgow in 1927, RD Laing was the most famous psychiatrist of his time.

Laing’s work redefined the relationship between patient and doctor. His book ‘The Divided Self’ enhanced his reputation and brought him celebrity status. Laing believed the family to be a potentially destructive force on the individual. He once said ‘We are effectively destroying ourselves with violence masquerading as love.’ ‘Divided’ focuses on a pivotal moment in Laing’s own, often troubled, family life.

The Great Train Race

By Robert Dawson Scott
Mon 16th – Sat 21st Sept

It’s about a race. Between trains. From London to Aberdeen . You couldn’t make it up – and we didn’t. The incredible but true story of the death-defying contest, sparked by the opening of the Forth bridge, between trains on the East and West Coast routes to Scotland in the summer of 1895.

Woman of the Year

By Stef Smith
Mon 23rd – Sat 28th Sept

Paula isn’t quite sure why she’s been voted Woman of the Year.

The evening before the ceremony, she sits alone in her hotel room and tries to write her acceptance speech. After two or three glasses of cheap Merlot, her mind starts wandering to her previous beds, breakdowns and some of her very bad haircuts.

As she trawls through her memories some deep, dark truths begin to surface and by midnight, she isn’t sure she’s worthy of anything any more…

A play about learning to accept the things you don’t deserve.

The Jazz Club Murder

By James Runcie
Mon 30th Sept– Sat 5th Oct

A musical murder mystery jazz thriller set in Soho in 1954. A young cigarette girl is strangled as Gloria Dee, one of America’s finest singers is in the middle of ‘Why not take all of me?” Anyone in the audience could have committed the crime- but who? And how?And why? The reluctant clerical detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, dusts off his brogues, and investigates.

“An undiluted pleasure” – The Scotsman

“‘AND is there honey still for tea?’ When the hero is a learned young country vicar, and one of two love interests is named Hildegard, after the 12th century Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen, you know you’re in pretty refined company for a detective series. Opera-loving Inspector Morse would appear to have a rival… this is engaging storytelling that probes all human frailty… ” – Scotland on Sunday

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The Trouble with Double

By D C Jackson
Mon 7th – Sat 12th Oct

It’s the morning of Dex Sexington’s marriage to Sally Mallow and all the preparations are in place; frock, flowers, photographer, catering and cake. The only potential impediment to the Sexington-Mallow merger is the unexpected pre-nup-turn-up of Sally’s twin sister Meryl who has dastardly designs on Dex.  Will Meryl Mallow mar the marriage?  Can Sally see off her sinister sister?  The Trouble With Double is a screwball comedy about sibling rivalry and wedding etiquette.

Saint One

By Lesley Hart
Mon 14th – Sat 19th Oct

In the birthplace of the battered mars bar – a Stonehaven chip shop, cast adrift in the North Sea by a giant wave – a local news man, a schoolgirl, and a woman who thinks she’s Billy Connolly search among the wreckage of the chip shop, and their battered lives, for some kind of meaning, for memories lost, for a way back home, and to find out what the Big Yin has to do with it all…

Doras Duinte (Closed Door)

By Catriona Lexy Campbell
Mon 21st – Sat 26th Oct

’S e dealbh-chluich ùr, co-aimsireach a th’ ann an Doras Dùinte, ag innse sgeulachd mu Lydia Ross, boireannach ann an grèim tinneas-inntinn agoraphobia, agus a loidsear annasach aice, Lindsay Guthrie.

Tha Lydia gu mòr ann an trioblaid le airgead nuair a tha Guthrie a’ tighinn agus a’ toirt fuasgladh dhi. Tha e a’ tòiseachadh ga cuideachadh le bhi faighinn smachd air a beatha ach dh’ fhaodar gu bheil barrachd ri Guthrie na tha i an dùil.

A’ gabhail beachdan bho obair leithid Hitchcock agus Patrick Hamilton, tha an dealbh-chluich seo a’ coimhead gu mionaideach ri ceangalan dian, earbs agus iomallachas.

Doras Dùinte is a contemporary Gaelic thriller that tells the story of Lydia Ross, an agoraphobic woman, and her enigmatic lodger, Lindsay Guthrie.

Lydia is in financial trouble when Guthrie comes to her rescue. He begins to help her on the road to recovery but Guthrie may not be all he seems.

Drawing inspiration from the works of Hitchcock and Patrick Hamilton, the piece is an examination of obsession, trust and isolation.

Grave Undertaking

By Paddy Cunneen
Mon 28th Oct– Sat 2nd Nov

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