By Malachy McKenna

Mon, 07 September, 2015 — Sat, 12 September, 2015

Starring Des Keogh and Derry Power BEWLEY’S CAFÉ THEATRE @ POWERSCOURT Winner of the PJ O’Connor Radio Drama Award 2014 Two elderly farmers, Eamon and Nashee, meet at a gate on a remote hillside. These men are old friends, old rivals, old neighbours. They are men of heart, of humour, of hardness. Their conversation is […]

By Kieran Lynn and D C Jackson

Mon, 31 August, 2015 — Sat, 05 September, 2015

Featuring Molly Innes, Jane McCarry and Steven McNicoll John Dumfries MP has lost his seat and he’s hoping a walk on part on Scotland’s top soap Gallus Palace will rehabilitate his tarnished public image. Angela Laing is Gallus Palace’s Grande Dame – she’s a hard drinking, hard smoking national treasure who has political ambitions of […]

By Various

Tue, 28 July, 2015 — Sun, 30 August, 2015

A Play, A Pie and A Pint is on a short break, but we are pleased to announce we will be returning on 31st August with our new season. The warmth, openness and continuing appetite for new drama from the Òran Mór audience has now become legendary and we hope that this season we can […]

By Jean Racine | Adapted By Frances Poet

Mon, 29 June, 2015 — Sat, 04 July, 2015

Directed by Graham McLaren Featuring Lucianne McEvoy and Rebecca Rodgers  “He wanted to scratch his way into me and drum his victory tune against my ribs. I will not cry for him.” Hermione is a beauty, a trophy men could kill for. But her fiancé, Pyrrhus, rejects her for newly widowed Andromaque, who he wants […]

By Herman Melville | Adapted By J.C Marshall

Mon, 22 June, 2015 — Sat, 27 June, 2015

Directed by Gareth Nicholls Featuring Meg Fraser, Robert Jack and Harry Ward “To sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea.” Big book. Big themes. Big whale. Join us for a rollicking shanty-laden adaptation that preserves the vastness of Melville’s language and […]

By Sophocles | Adapted By Benny Young

Mon, 15 June, 2015 — Sat, 20 June, 2015

Directed by Liz Carruthers Featuring George Docherty, Daniel Portman and Benny Young Those whom the Gods would punish first drive mad. Those whom the the Gods would test – suffer. Sophocles’ drama about betrayal, deceit and prophesy. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. SOL SUMMER SEASON OF CLASSIC CUTS 2015 at ÒRAN MÓR A Play, A […]

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Adapted By Sandy Nelson

Mon, 08 June, 2015 — Sat, 13 June, 2015

Directed by Sacha Kyle Featuring Hannah Donaldson, Sandy Nelson and Katie Armstrong “I can’t stand this room.  I never saw a worse wallpaper in my life. The colour is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur […]

By Morag Fullarton

Mon, 01 June, 2015 — Sat, 06 June, 2015

Featuring Juliet Cadzow, John Kielty, Mark McDonnell and Frances Thorburn A bitter comedy and a dark tragedy, the story centres on a wealthy, egotistical, faded star, Norma Desmond, desperate to ‘return to the millions of fans she deserted’, and young, down-on-his luck writer, Joe Gillis, who sees a opportunity to exploit the situation. Sunset Boulevard: The Lunchtime Cut is […]

By Yuri Klavdiev | Adapted By Peter Arnott

Mon, 25 May, 2015 — Sat, 30 May, 2015

Literal translation by Alexandra Smith Featuring Simon Donaldson and Kirsty Stuart A surreal and fantastical journey through contemporary Russia as seen through the eyes of one of Russia’s most popular and controversial playwrights. Issues such as gay rights, corruption and love are seen through prisms as wide ranging as Penguins in the Antarctic to a […]

By Deb Jones

Mon, 18 May, 2015 — Sat, 23 May, 2015

Featuring Stephen Clyde and Gaylie Runciman Deb Jones is the second recipient of The David MacLennan Award for new playwrights It is Nov 8th 1973. A long dark night of the soul. Caitlin Thomas, the Irish dancer, battles her double addiction to alcohol and to her obsessive love with Dylan Thomas, the welsh poet who […]

By Lou Prendergast

Mon, 11 May, 2015 — Sat, 16 May, 2015

Featuring Tom McGovern Tommy has good intentions. A self-proclaimed ‘man’s man’ with the gift of the gab and a penchant for Elvis, his plan unravels through a series of dark events, and Tommy cant do right for doing wrong. Lou Prendergast’s theatre practice grew out of visual art training and now includes playwriting, performance and […]

By Mikhail Durnenkov | Adapted By Davey Anderson

Mon, 04 May, 2015 — Sat, 09 May, 2015

Literal translation by Alexandra Smith Featuring Lewis Howden, Anita Vettesse and  Mark Wood Russian troops enter Ukraine. But the war hasn’t started yet. Not officially. Meanwhile, protestors take to the streets, parents lose their children, strangers find lovers, journalists lie on television, cancer patients crack jokes about the absurdity of existence, the downtrodden dream of […]

By Richard Crane

Mon, 27 April, 2015 — Sat, 02 May, 2015

Featuring Jack Klaff, Anna-Maria Nabirye and Iain Robertson In association with Brighton Theatre and the Romanian Cultural Institute Music composed by Vlad Maistorovici “My stake thrusts its roots deep into the soul of this nation”. Vlad has had a mixed press throughout history. In the Ceausescu years, Dracula stories were banned & Vlad was celebrated […]

By Alan Spence

Mon, 20 April, 2015 — Sat, 25 April, 2015

Featuring Steven Duffy and Kevin McMonagle Two iconic Glasgow figures – poet Edwin Morgan and trade union leader Jimmy Reid – died within days of each other in 2010. They are astonished to wake up in a strange afterlife-anteroom where they engage in a flying about life, the Universe and everything – from Glasgow to […]