Autumn 2024 Season Announced
We are delighted to announce our 20th anniversary Autumn season at Òran Mór, in support of MND Scotland, co-presented with Traverse Theatre, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Ayr Gaiety, Paisley Town Hall and Johnstone Town Hall.
This season of 12 plays, programmed by our Associate Director Laila Noble, both celebrates our past with some returning PPP favourites and also marks the exciting future ahead, featuring debuts from some extraordinary emerging playwrights.
Opening the season at Òran Mór on Monday 2 September is a revival of Poker Alice by Still Game star and co-creator Greg Hemphill from PPP’s inaugural season in 2004. This witty one-woman show about a poker-playing widow will star Annie Grace (Macbeth), reprising her role from the original production 20 years ago.
Brian James O’Sullivan returns with his eighth PPP show The Last Cabaret on Earth which welcomes audiences to join singer Sam, played by Marc Mackinnon (Macbeth: An Undoing), for an electrifying final hour of existence; Jack Hunter takes aim at corporate greed with dark comedy The Wolves at the Door; and Shonagh Murray gives a voice to the wife and mistress of Robert Burns in Scottish musical Armour: A Herstory of The Bard.
Acclaimed comedian and writer Jonny Donahoe (Every Brilliant Thing) brings us the hilarious Anna/Anastasia inspired by the life of Anna Anderson, the greatest imposter of the 20thcentury; Roisin Sheridan Bryson offers a love letter to the Edinburgh Fringe in the epic queer romance Lost Girls/Bus Stops; and the broken British immigration system is showcased in tense new drama Detained by Michelle Chantelle Hopewell, in association with Stellar Quines.
An alien invasion is the setting for a hilarious satire exploring the extremities of a post-truth world in Cassie and the Space Cowboy by Paul F. Matthews, who starred in many early PPP shows; James Peake offers up a spooky farce this Halloween with Ghost Off! about Hillhead’s premier psychic trying to prove the existence of the paranormal; a time-bending drama about grief and magic awaits in Blast Off, Starburst, by Catriona MacLeod; and Miracle on Deanston Drive is a heartwarming one-man show by Katharine Williams about a local Glaswegian cabbie who saves the day.
Closing the season is Jellyfish by Katy Nixon, a drama about a mum and son who go to Berlin and the winner of our prestigious David MacLennan Award, in honour of our late founder. It will be directed by our new Artistic Director Brian Logan, who starts with us very soon.
We are also celebrating this anniversary by publishing a collection of plays from our 20-year history this September and we’ll be hosting a special fundraising gala extravaganza at Òran Mór on Sunday 13 October with more details to be announced soon – save the date!
“It has been an absolute honour programming this special season of shows celebrating 20 years of this truly ground-breaking theatre company.
Laila Noble, Associate Director
“In honour of David MacLennan, we are delighted to be supporting MND Scotland from this season onwards, to raise awareness of this extraordinary charity offering support to those living with Motor Neurone Disease and their loved ones.
“Whether you’ve been with us right from the start or have never been before, we welcome you to join us for a play, a pie and a pint and celebrate our 20th anniversary in style with us.”
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