A converted hilltop church at the top of Byres Road, Oran Mor is best known for A Play, A Pie and A Pint — Glasgow's beloved lunchtime theatre series running Monday to Saturday. In its auditorium beneath Alasdair Gray's extraordinary ceiling mural, you get a brand new short play and a pie every week. A Glasgow institution.
New WritingIn 1976, Jack and Kathy set out on a mission to find Paul McCartney’s house on the Mull of Kintyre, where he was living off-grid after The Beatles broke up. Now, fifty years later, they are telling their granddaughter the full story of what really happened. Did they ever get to meet their idol? Did...
New WritingWhen Sean’s best pal Davie tragically dies on the day of his release from prison, the system prepares to cremate him in a council funeral with no guests, no gravestone, and no story. From his prison cell, Sean makes a promise: Davie won’t go out like that. Haunted by Davie’s ghost and inspired by...
New WritingWhen you’ve lost all hope, can one night with an unlikely companion remind you what it means to be alive? And can you choose to stay, just one more day? Join two strangers on an extraordinary flight across Edinburgh’s starlit city skies and pulsing basement bars in this uplifting new musical...
New Writing“My name is Joy and I’m a f*cking oxymoron” Joy, a self-identified spinster librarian, is sad most of the time. Why would her parents place the burden of such a name upon her? When a particularly disastrous date leads to her potential beau declaring she needs to find a sense of humour, Joy wonders…...
New WritingMiss Lockwood isn’t well. That’s what Alice’s pupils have been told, although the truth is she’s been suspended following strange goings-on in her classroom: appearances by mysterious figures only she can see, delivering cryptic messages only she can hear. And, of course, there was the unfortunate...
New WritingA lock-in. A few drinks. A bit of Kylie Minogue. What could go wrong? When Margaret enters a Glasgow gay bar for the very first time, she discovers a whole new world through the spiky bartender, chaotic kitchen porter, and a mysterious package waiting to be opened. Trapped inside by a thunderstorm...
New WritingA nightclub collision. A daft decision. A heartbeat caught between two strangers who can barely catch their breath. Told in a pulse of beat-poetry, barbed humour and bruising honesty, Scott and Jess ricochet through tests, scans, scares and the kind of arguments you only have when everything...
New WritingA sparse gym in rural Donegal. Michael holds his breath and sticks his head under water, preparing to beat the world record after seven long years. His coach Pat watches on, drinking can after can, as they wait for yer man from Guinness to arrive. But when Pat’s daughter Grainne shows up hidden...
New WritingMaggie has had enough. When her childhood nemesis appears at the door on the morning of her 30th birthday, she gives in to impulse and takes drastic action. Now, alone and inching towards Aberdeen on the relentlessly delayed 11:11am train, she has no choice but to ask herself some pressing...
New WritingTwo politically polar-opposite councillors come together for a routine surgery, only for a desperate constituent Lenny to arrive with a homemade bomb timed to blow up. Well, a bit later than planned, as he forgot about the clocks going forward. With the trio trapped and time ticking down, the...
New Writing“Tonight is my girls’ last performance on earth. So, let’s show them a good time, shall we?” You are invited to a funeral like no other, as we gather together with acclaimed performer and singer Hannah Howie for a glorious send-off for her boobs before a double mastectomy. Dress accordingly. No...
New WritingOn May 13th 2021, two men were forcibly removed from their home in Kenmure Street and thrown into the back of an immigration van. Within the hour, thousands came to block the van from leaving, leading to an eight-hour stand-off between the police and peaceful protestors, before the two men were...
New WritingCash-strapped best pals Linda and Angie live for the weekend buzz of bingo night. Their daughters, Stacey and Amy, however, think it’s just an old biddies’ game until they hear about the ‘big one’ with £40k up for grabs. When the two lassies scheme to sneak into the members only club for a chance...
New Writing100 miles from the nearest Tesco, Ruari is working behind their dad’s bar in Ulinish as usual, when two leather-clad bikers, Helen and Jane, walk in and open Ruari’s eyes to a world far from their own. Over three years of spring-time hikes the three become fast friends, but as Ruari grows into...
New Writing12 March 1881. England lost 1-6 in a record home defeat to a mighty Scotland team, captained by a forgotten name from history: Andrew Watson. Born into Caribbean privilege, Watson arrived in Scotland to discover that he was not welcome, but refused to be silenced and broke barriers by becoming the...
New WritingJade, Amber and Lilac have been organising Coral’s hen night for the past six months and it’s going to be epic! But at the last minute, Coral’s cousin Luna rocks up uninvited. Perfect skin, a model, a poet, and a human rights lawyer…a total goddess. It’s too easy to hate her but little do they …...
New WritingWhy do we tell stories? How do we build ourselves a future? What, or who, is in the way? A medieval Town Crier and a Court Jester have lost their jobs – by accidentally going to the future and leaving a rather important individual behind. They want to teach you how to tell a joke … Continued
New WritingIt’s 1997, it’s Millport and Steven McPhail is bored. He’s 17 and it’s now time to work out what to do with the rest of his life. The problem is, there are only so many options when you find yourself stuck on a Scottish island. Everything changes though when Steven has a chance encounter with …...