https://youtu.be/ien1Z42hzBc Written by Ron Coleman Directed by Magdalena Schamberger Special Mention to James McKillop, Nancy McAdam and Agnes Houston Review by Gabriel Rogers ★★★★ Despite the recent cold weather, which has held Edinburgh in its icy grip, Ron Coleman’s Dementia the Musical manages to cut through the chill and bring much-needed warmth to the audience … Continue reading Review: Dementia The Musical – The Studio, Edinburgh
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 Brian James O'Sullivan Directed by Laila Noble Tickets from £12.00 ★★★★ Brian James O’Sullivan’s one-hander seems to be a herald of the more adventurous nature in this A Play, A Pie, and a Pint season’s roster – pieces which relish the opportunity to manipulate the meta-theatrical boundaries (the upcoming Playthrough looks to push this line … Continue reading Meetings With The Monk – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Alice Clark Directed by Laila Noble ★★★★ Between the recently touring King and I in Edinburgh and now Alice Clark’s Ship Rats docking in Oran Mor as the newest part of the A Play, a Pie and a Pint season (and the Traverse Theare’s Autumn PPP opening), the historical relationships of the West and East couldn’t be … Continue reading Ship Rats – A Play, A Pie, and A Pint
Written by Pauline Lockhart Directed by Niloo-Far Khan Music by Alan Penman ★★★ Home is where the heart is, so the idiom goes. But when your heart just isn’t ‘in it’, where do you call home? Struggling at school, frustrated with life, and without a source of understanding to turn to, Caitlin begins to act out more … Continue reading Forever Home – A Play, A Pie, and a Pint
Written by Uma Nada-Rajah Directed by Jemima Levick ★★★★ Invading and destructive. Coming over on boats and taking up the spaces, homes, and opportunities of those who have lived here for generations. We’re talking about the American Bull Frog, but you knew that, right? Then again, you’d never invite the frog over for drinks, would … Continue reading The Great Replacement – A Play, A Pie, And a Pint
Written by Alice Clark Directed by Philip Howard ★★★★ Everything we send into the world reverberates back into our lives in one way or another; Janet never thought it would arrive in a box of ornate Aubergines. In Wishaw, Janet struggles with the everyday pressures of, well, everyday life. To make it worse, it’s her … Continue reading Made In China – Traverse Theatre
