Mon, 06 April, 2020 — Sat, 11 April, 2020
Italy, 1984. Scotland’s Rose Reilly scores for Italy, helping them win the women’s World Cup. Earlier, in Scotland, Rose is expelled from school, sacked from her job, handed a lifetime ban by the Scottish Football Association. The incredible true story of a girl from Ayrshire who refused to play by society’s discriminatory rules.
Presented in Association with Traverse Theatre and The Beacon, Greenock.
Lorna Martin is an award-winning TV scriptwriter. She created the 6-part comedy drama series Women on the Verge with Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan. Lorna won an RTS Scotland Writer award for the series. It was also nominated for a Broadcasting Press Guilt award 2018 for best comedy series.
Lorna is also an award-winning journalist and previously worked as Scotland Editor of The Observer.
This is Lorna’s second A Play, A Pie, and A Pint, following Party Politics, a dark comedy about motherhood, in 2018.