A Play, A Pie and A Pint 2025 Spring Season announced - full list of shows at Oran Mor

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint 2025 Spring Season announced - full list of shows

18 Plays, Pies and Pints to enjoy at Glasgow's Oran Mor this Spring 2025

The world-famous lunchtime theatre company A Play, A Pie and A Pint has announced their spring programme for 2025. They will showcase an astonishing 18 new plays, with a new creative team, every week for four months between February and June 2025. The shows will be performed at Òran Mór in Glasgow, and across Scotland, in the inaugural season by new Play, Pie and Pint Artistic Director Brian Logan.

Highlights

18 productions

Set in Scotland, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Iran, Ancient Greece and beyond

First-ever Scots version of Mistero Buffo, first Scottish production since performed by Robbie Coltrane in 1990

A revealing story about Sri Lanka’s ‘baby farms’ from West End actor Cilla Silvia in her playwriting debut, The Brown Doll

Revival of Peter Arnott’s The Inquisitor, celebrating the playwright’s 40 years in Scottish theatre

Elaine C Smith hosting PPP's 20th anniversary gala. Tommy Ga-Ken Wan — Elaine C Smith hosting PPP's 20th anniversary gala. Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Continuing with the 20th anniversary celebrations after a hugely successful 2024, culminating in being shortlisted for Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards, this new season of 18 plays will take Glasgow audiences across the world, with stories set everywhere from the dreich Scottish Highlands to a sundrenched Moroccan spa.

The season performs from Monday 24 February - Saturday 28 June 2025 at Glasgow’s Òran Mór with a brand-new play every week at lunchtime to entertain and enrich audiences. Many of the shows can also be enjoyed on tour across the country, including at Ayr Gaiety, The Lemon Tree, and the first seven plays at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

Opening the season in February is Dookin’ Oot, a riotous black comedy from Éimi Quinn (The Funeral Club) which tackles the topic of assisted dying with some classic Glaswegian humour, as a kind carer helps her elderly client out financially with her wish to die in Switzerland by becoming an OnlyFans star.

In March, Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh written and directed by Lana Pheutan is a topical comedy set on Skye about two cousins who stage a drunken protest highlighting the rural housing crisis; Wasps by Cameron Forbes and directed by River City star Lesley Hart (co-director of Poker Alice) is a bittersweet monologue about a teenager with an obsessive phobia of wasps, and Dancing Shoes is a life-affirming comedy-drama by Stephen Christopher & Graeme Smith (The Scaff) and directed by Artistic Director Brian Logan, about the unlikely friendship of three men in recovery from addiction.

In April, Night, Idiot by Zoë Bullock (Shō and the Demons of the Deep) is a rip-roaring theatrical ride about a woman’s quest for impossible answers after she wakes up to find her boyfriend missing, and Ivor by Jennifer Adam is a surreal and comedic drama set on an unforgettable birthday that highlights the climate crisis and how to survive at all costs.

A classic Greek tragedy gets a fiercely witty spin with Jocasta by Nikki Kalkman, which sees the mother of Oedipus retell some passionate tales in order to get into the Underworld, and for those looking for a laugh-out-loud time, Nun of Your Business by James Peake (Ghost Off!) is a hilarious new comedy about some riotous nuns directed by Associate Director Laila Noble ( Bread & Breakfast).

In May comes two extraordinary shows: The Brown Doll from West End actor Cilla Silvia (Pretty Woman: The Musical, Opening Night) reveals the untold story of Sri Lanka’s exploitative adoption trade, in her playwriting debut inspired by her own experiences; and Nobel prize-winning writer Dario Fo’s infamous Mistero Buffo has its first Scottish production since it was performed by Robbie Coltrane in 1990, with a first-ever Scots language adaptation directed by Ben Standish (Beyond Krapp).

Also in May, Goodbye Dreamland Bowlarama by Taylor Dyson and Calum Kelly (Pushin’ Thirty) is a fish-out-of-water comedy with original songs about the importance of community; The Sunshine Spa, in association with Birds of Paradise, is an affecting comedy by Simon Jay that explores the importance of touch and intimacy for disabled people, and Saria Callas is a new multimedia play by Iranian-born artist Sara Amini about an aspiring singer in Tehran where it is forbidden for women to sing.

Coming in June, Andy McGregor (To Save the Sea) returns with Meme Girls, a new musical about friendship and the powerful role of influencers in our media; You Won’t Break My Soul by JD Stewart (Daniel Getting Married) is a whirlwind comedy about two best friends on the hunt for Beyonce tickets, and The Haunting of Agnes Gilfrey by Amy Conway, behind Catafalque at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, is a new gothic thriller drawing upon Scottish folk tales.

Closing out the season, PPP celebrates playwright Peter Arnott (The Signalman) and his incredible 40th anniversary working in Scottish theatre with a revival of The Inquisitor, first staged at Òran Mór in 2007. This cerebral play, by Arnott’s own admission, had some challenging production issues on its first outing and this revival is an opportunity to do the play justice.

Brian Logan at PPP’s 20th anniversary gala. Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Brian Logan, Artistic Director, said:

“Never were the words ‘kid’ and ‘candy shop’ more aptly joined together than to describe my feelings on programming my first season at A Play, A Pie and A Pint. A brand new play, with a new creative team, every week for four months? I couldn’t be more excited.

“Despite the precarious timing, as we and the whole Scottish theatre industry wait with bated breath for next week’s Creative Scotland funding decisions, we’ve committed to our full eighteen-show Spring season as usual. We’re also very thankful to our co-presenters for coming on board at this challenging time and for their ongoing commitment to our work and new writing in Scotland.

“This season has shows offering up all kinds of varieties for all different tastes, with a gothic thriller, jazzy Dundee musical, Greek tragedy, and more for audiences to tuck into every lunchtime at Òran Mór. I have no doubt that audiences will enjoy the wild mix of plays and play-makers (newcomers to PPP alongside plenty of old favourites) as much as we’ve enjoyed assembling it.”

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