A DARK comedy about a world without women, the return of a hit musical and a play about murderous goings-on in a Glasgow west end allotment are some of the highlights from Oran Mor’s lunchtime theatre spring season.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint kicks off its Fresh Perspectives programme with Alison Carr’s Until It’s Gone, in association with Stellar Quines, which explores what a world without women means for the men left behind, while Kim Millar’s The Worm Who Turned features mayhem, murder and marrows in a tale of gardeners trying to keep developers at bay.
Noisemaker’s rousing musical journey through Scottish history, SCOTS, will return for a second run after its sell-out success earlier this year and Johnny McKnight’s new raucous musical Meet Me at The Knob is loosely inspired by the real-life story of Glasgow’s White Hats, a little-remembered and rarely-spoken of gang of gay male prostitutes on the Broomielaw, who bribed government officials and wealthy clients with the threat of turning them in to the police for acts of homosexuality.
This season of PPP is co-presented with Traverse Theatre, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Ayr Gaiety, Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival, Mull Theatre and for the very first time, Macrobert Arts Centre and Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Other highlights include Rachel Flynn’s new comedy Keepin’ The Heid, featuring a bawdy Mary Queen of Scots, and Meghan Tyler’s Bloodbank, which examines power play dynamics between a Tory MP and an NHS nurse.
Linda Duncan McLaughlin demonstrates why Scottish women should not be messed with in The Merry Wives of The Wyndford, an all-Glasgow update of Shakespeare’s riotous comedy, and David MacLennan Award winner Áine King will debut her powerful climate crisis-themed drama Burning Bright.
Well-known names taking part in the spring season include Rab C Nesbitt creator Ian Pattison, actor and writer Dave Anderson and actor, writer and musician Morna Young.
Jemima Levick, PPP’s artistic director, said she was “thrilled” to be back and added: “We live in a time where peoples’ perspectives and opinions are increasingly polarised, so this season we invite audiences to come see new work that encourages them to perceive the world around them in fresh and exciting ways.”
The spring season begins on February 20, 2023 and runs for 19 weeks.
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