Directed by Edoardo Berto
A hilarious satirical comedy set during an alien invasion, exploring the extremities of a post-truth world.
“This is an emergency broadcast on behalf of His Majesty’s Government. A planet-wide attack by hostie alien beings from another world is currently in progress. This is not an exercise!”
After an alien invasion begins, retired legal secretary Cassie discovers a man wandering the bleak apocalyptic landscape and brings him to her place for a cuppa, but the two clash when it turns out he’s a conspiracy theorist who does not believe that the aliens are real.
PAUL F. MATTHEWS is a writer and performer who has been involved with A Play, A Pie and A Pint since the early days. In its second season he appeared in the one-man show The Prince of a Fish Supper and in the years following he has also acted in Targets, God’s Hairdresser and Speak the Speech. He has also collaborated with Jimmy Chisholm on Cinderella (Macrobert Arts Centre) and The Prince: The Johnny Thomson Story (Celtic FC/King’s Theatre).
His play Preen Back Yer Lugs!, a Scottish/English language version of the Swedish comedy ‘Svensk Resning’ was widely acclaimed t the Edinburgh Fringe with five stars from the Sunday Herald and Oxford Times, and praise from Miriam Margolyes, which Paul found out about as she is the best friend of his mother-in-law.
His one woman play Svetlana also performed at the Fringe starring Nicola Jo Cully and directed by Laila Noble, Associate Director of A Play, A Pie and A Pint.
EDOARDO BERTO is an Italian Edinburgh-based director and trained at Edinburgh Napier University. Edoardo is the co-founder of Myths Unbound Productions for which he directed Prometheus Bound (Io's version) by Kira Mason and Julius Caesar Must Die, after Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. He works also as a freelance director and he directed Brief Candle - debut show of Blushing Caligula Theatre and OffFest nominated - and assisted the adaptation of The Changeling produced by Lazarus Theatre Company (2023). Edoardo has previously worked at A Play, A Pie and A Pint assisting Dungeons, Dragons and the Quest for D*** and he is excited to make his PPP directorial debut this season.
