Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil Directed by Jean-Pierre van der Spuy Review by Olivia Burns Glasgow - 2026 tickets ★★★★★ Boublil and Schönberg’s musical returns in ALL of its glory in a visual and audio spectacle. Mackintosh’s revival has nurtured a theatrical buffet of skill, talent, consideration and … Continue reading Review: Miss Saigon – The Edinburgh Playhouse
Written by Katy Nixon Directed by Brian Logan Review by Olivia Burns Traverse Theatre ★★★ A Play, A Pie, A Pint vet Katy Nixon returns with horrifying relevance and an uneasy Tuesday-afternoon-watch in Cheapo, directed by Brian Logan. School uniforms, chicken-shop meet-ups, crippling anxiety and big hoop earrings thrust into a paradigm of teenagerisms and adolescence … Continue reading Review: Play, Pie, and a Pint: Cheapo – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/mhZ79NphDQA Written and Directed by Beau Hopkins Review by Dominic Corr Touring ★★★★ There’s a ritualistic pulse to SALT; a show that doesn’t just tell a story, but summons it. Staged at the newly revitalised Paisley Arts Centre, this production from Contemporary Ritual Theatre is a bold, elemental piece of theatre that blends folklore, grief, … Continue reading Review: SALT – Paisley Arts Centre
Written by Jack MacGregor Directed by Andrea Ling Review by Olivia Burns Traverse Theatre ★★★ The last two productions by A Play, A Pie, A Pint at the Traverse have brought us two diverse yet coalescing conversations on the representation of history; last week’s Wallace concerned itself with the impact of archival representation on modern … Continue reading Review: Play, Pie, and a Pint: Our Brother – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/M-r3vUI5MlY Written by Shonagh Murray Directed by Tom Cooper Review by Gabriel Rogers Tickets from £12.00 ★★★★ For this week’s edition of the A Play, A Pie and A Pint series, the Traverse Theatre’s loyal audience was treated to an early Burns night, of sorts. Armour: A Herstory Of The Scottish Bard, directed by Tom … Continue reading Review: A Play, A Pie, and a Pint – Armour: A Herstory of The Scottish Bard
Written by Jack Hunter Directed by Amie Burns Walker Review by Gabriel Rogers Tickets from £12.00 ★★★★ In the wonderful Traverse Theatre, armed with a ‘tattie dog’ and a pint of coke, I awaited with anticipation the beginning of Jack Hunter’s The Wolves At The Door. Hunter’s fifty-minute play is a contemporary piece which focuses … Continue reading Review: A Play, A Pie, and a Pint – The Wolves At The Door, Traverse Theatre
Written by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh after Euripides Directed by Philip Howard Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ Some stories are inescapable in their evolution; contemporary rewrites on myth and legend become more numerous in our attempts to revisit them with a renewed lens and offer voices to the once silenced. And when captured with deft intelligence, gallus tongues, … Continue reading Review: Medea on the Mic – A Play, a Pie, and a Pint at Òran Mór, Glasgow
Written by Éimi Quinn Directed by Maureen Carr Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ There are few things more appropriately Scottish than baring down something like cancer or the prospect of an early death, than with little more than a smirk, pals, and plans for one last grand adventure. Taken from actor and writer Éimi Quinn’s experiences as a … Continue reading Review: The Funeral Club – A Play, a Pie, and a Pint at Òran Mór, Glasgow
Written by Raymond Wilson Directed by Fiona Mackinnon Tickets from £16.00 ★★★ Every rock star has a certain want: jewel-encrusted watches, historical artefacts, and less savoury substances. And then there’s Scotland’s own Lewis Capaldi. That loveable scamp, world-class songwriter and vocalist, and renowned for a cracking sense of humour, so what is it that Capaldi wants? Well, it would appear to … Continue reading Review: Lewis Capaldi Goes Tropical – Òran Mór, Glasgow
Written by Ellen Ritchie Directed by Becky Hope-Palmer Tickets from £12.00 ★★★★ Not only located in the Play, Pie, and a Pint spring collection, the suppressed anger of women has had a steady and strong presence through the past month’s shows – showing no signs of halting with Ellen Ritchie’s Hotdog, co-presented by the Traverse Theatre and Macrobert Art Centre. … Continue reading Review: Hotdog – A Play, Pie, and a Pint at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
