By Linda Duncan McLaughlin

Mon, 12 October, 2015 — Sat, 17 October, 2015

Featuring Barrie Hunter, Fiona MacNeil and Wendy Seager Presented by the Traverse Theatre, in association with Luminate: Scotland’s creative ageing festival  What makes you ‘you’? What makes you love someone? And is it possible to hold onto it all when everything you share begins to disappear? … or are you just clinging to the ghost […]

By Cathy Forde

Mon, 05 October, 2015 — Sat, 10 October, 2015

Featuring Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter and Alan McHugh In association with Aberdeen Performing Arts and presented by the Traverse Theatre Susan is a young woman from Blantyre with somewhere else she’d far rather be than the project room in a Glasgow school where she meets Gerry, a handyman and pub-quiz fan who never passes up on an […]

By Adam Peck

Mon, 28 September, 2015 — Sat, 03 October, 2015

Featuring Rosie Mason and Darren Seed In association with Tobacco Factory, Bristol and presented by the Traverse Theatre We don’t see any reason to stay here – life on Earth really isn’t that great, not for us. Neil and Dawn have been offered the trip of a lifetime – a space-flight to Mars. All they have to do […]

By Nalini Chetty

Mon, 21 September, 2015 — Sat, 26 September, 2015

Featuring Keiran Gallacher, Beth Marshall and Miles Yekinni Presented in association with the Traverse Theatre “Did you know that your deepest memories are not stored in your brain? Truly. No. Memories are lodged in your bones. Any creature born with bones is born with knowledge”               Ray MacNair is seventeen […]

By By the DM Collective

Mon, 14 September, 2015 — Sat, 19 September, 2015

Featuring Dave Anderson, Joyce Falconer, Cat Grozier, Brian James and Kirstin McLean The celebrated team behind the Jean Jacques Rousseau Show, Demons, and The Deficit Show bring us another satirical political sketch show one year on from the referendum and four months on from the UK General election. It is an added joy that they have […]

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 […]