A Play, A Pie and A Pint at Oran Mor Glasgow (2026) 

Scott and Jess meet in a nightclub over New Year, Scott on holiday from a music degree in London, guitar and harp. Jess about to start a history and Drama Degree. They hit it off and one thing leads to another Jess is pregnant. The play navagates these young peoples lives, Scott desperate not to make the mistakes his father made. Jess putting up with scornful comments by older women in the shops. It's not an easy time, at some points we wonder, will it last, although we very much hope it will.

The script written by Nathan Scott Young is wonderful, often rhyming it's funny and can turn to hard hitting in a heartbeat.

Cristian Ortega and Cindy Awor are outstanding as the young couple struggling with the responsibility, not quite yet in love but desperate to do the best for the child.

This 60 mins is practically perfect, the best cast a great script and directed with flair.

Ends Saturday so go tomorrow and enjoy.

Sometimes all you need is a hug and that is what Bethany Tennick 's new play Outskirts feels like.

Mags a 45 year old Granny, workaholic and lonely decides one Friday rather than sitting in with a glass of wine and terrible TV, waiting to be phoned by work colleagues or her Daughter struggling to cope with being a mother in Australia.

She has finally pushed her self out her comfort zone by finding a local Glasgow Gay Bar with the hope she might satisfy long surpressed urges.

Outskirts is staffed by rather rude barmaid Dove who instantly decides what Mags is like.

Luckily after a cocktail the women start to talk,

Then barman Si enters a gender fluid person who brings affirming spells to the evening.

As each cocktail is taken, relationships, family, failed dreams and gender is discussed.

Friendship is a huge theme in this play as mags observes at 45 it's hard to make new pals, many of those we knew have moved on and became distant. New people are hard to find.

We leave feeling these three newly found friends will be close never mind the age difference.

Today Bethany took the role of Mags due to cast illness and she fully embodied the part.

All the characters are so well written we feel we know them, Rosie Graham as Dove and Jake Stephen as Si are exceptionally good.

This lovely wee musical is funny, sad and wholesome.

Go see!

Miss Lockwood isn't Well by James Reilly, is a bitter/sweet comedy played out over an hour long therapist session. 

It starts with Miss Lockwood visiting her therapist ex GP turned to therapist Dr Freer. From their conversation we can work out Miss Lockwood is a school teacher who seems to be going through emotional stress. She refuses to believe this and feels she can return to work immediately. She hopes the school priest Fr Macklin will help, however when we find out why she is there, Saints mysteriously appearing in her class room to help her for the most banal reasons he is firmly of the mind she is a crackpot!

This cracking wee play looks at the traditional idea of religion being very stoic, maybe in the modern world a heads up if the fish is off or where your missing earing is would be more relevant to the younger generations.

Jane McGarry as Dr Freer provides the mediation between Karen Young's Miss Lockwood and biting comedy of Mark Cox's Fr Macklin. Mark gets pretty much all the funny lines and they are timed to perfection.

Will Miss Lockwood get her three holy secrets and what moviestar frock will the virgin Mary be Wearing?

To get the answers book a ticket for the play when it goes to the Trav!

Joy is a fu**ing oxymoron, Joy the titular character of Morma Young's latest play for A Play, A Pie and A Pint is completely lacking of a GSOH therefore it's putting a strain on getting past a second date!

At the end of her tether she discovers the 5 step program to learning how to laugh at jokes, ably practiced at the group for depression her GP sends her to.

Naomi Stirrat directed by Alex Fthenakis plays it like a stand up gig with mic in hand, dancing over the excellent script full of Chickens crossing roads, knock, knocks and Dr, Dr gags.

This funny play has plenty of self aware put downs and problems to make it resonate with each viewer.

Sometimes, like the chicken we just need to get to the other side, safely.

The Swansong by Eve Nicole & Finn Anderson based on David Greig's radio play, is a gorgeous, ethereal musical starring Paul McArthur and Julia Murray with live saxophone and piano.

Lydia is at her lowest ebb, about to drown herself in the duck pond. When she meets Paul McArthur as a talking swan.

What follows is a Peter Pan like journey over the rooftops of Edinburgh Lydia flying on the back of the Swan. They go for drinks in the clubs of Auld Reekie before fleeing attackers. Taking a train to London Lydia goes to sleep hoping the Swan will be there in the morning.

The joy of this wonderful little musical is at no point do we not believe the Swan is real. Played with some humour and a lot of heart.

We get it, we know we all need someone to take us under their wing and guide us through whatever is happening in our lifes.

Go and see this if you possibly can. It's going to the Trav and The Gaiety .

The Legend of Davie McKenzie is a buddy play set against the backdrop of prison and death.

Davie and Sean are the best of friends, growing up together, both with only a mother, they have a lifestyle that doesn't have many consequences, allowed to stay out as long as they like and make their own fun.

They both have a love for movies, mainly American the likes of Batman, superman and Bonnie and Clyde, not the drab down at heel Brittish films.

Over the years the boys develop a drug habit and find themselves in the same jail after having far too much on them for personal use. Davie gets out first and can't help himself but continue with his addiction, the batch is bad and they find him dead three days later. (this isn't a spoiler it happens early on in the play)

Sean, sad at his friend's death wants to save him from a council funeral and give him the send off a Hero deserves, Davie returns in Ghost form to help and direct the caper!

This is a really heartbreaking play about the bond of friendship.

Sean Connor and Afton Moran are excellent as Davie and Sean, both bringing laughs through the many film references with Afton delivering a lovely heartfelt tribute to his friend and their lives together, sometimes it's not good to look back.

Ruairidh Murray as all the other characters plays comedy and serious well, defining all the parts and providing the living characters to bounce off Sean.

I really enjoyed this play it tells a strong story, how easy it is to get into drugs, die and leave people grieving.