Big Bad Riding Hood Review A Play A Pie and A Pint 

Big Bad Riding Hood

4⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

Gary McNair and Brian James O’Sullivan have teamed up this year to write Oran Mor’s Summer Panto.

The plot, if it can be called that, Has Gran being forced to sell her house in the, Once Upon a Time Kelvingrove park, back then it was a wooded field filled with various animals, many hilariously played by Cole Stewart, he has most of the quick changes during the show, slipping in and out of the characters with ease, his accent work is exceptional.

Jo Freer as Baz the ned sheep is brilliant, she also plays a Fox – anchor of Fox News. Spreading propaganda that the incomer animal the wolf is to be feared.

Granny has two sons; in true panto style one is smart the other stupid. The sons Peter and Boy are given life by Jamie Marley Leary – could this be the Boy that cried wolf?

Tyler Collins steals the show as the Three Little Pricks – a Donald Trump Pig with all three heads. He gives his impersonation with relish and although a comic parody, it’s all sadly too real.

It is wonderful to see George Drennan back at Oran Mor in the Dame’s frock. He plays the dame so well, the gags coming thick and fast, often breaking the fourth wall when one doesn’t quite land. Dressed as a cross between Allan Stewart’s Auntie May and Johnny Beattie’s Widow Twankie he shines in the part – his trumpet even gets a small cameo!

Will The Three Pricks destroy the park, will Granny get eaten, is slasher the dug a good boy?   Well to find out you need to buy a ticket!

A Play, A Pie and A Pint famously has very little budget to spend on the set, however Fraser Lappins textured forest, with felt flowers and quilted clouds is delightful.

Brian’s compositions are full on earworms, and you will be whistling Clamjamfry for days afterwards.

Gary knows and understands panto well, previously having co-wrote with the great Dave Anderson. The jokes come thick and fast and those that don’t work , well it doesn’t matter another comes straight behind it to keep the audience rolling in the aisles.

In amongst the laughter and a few F bombs , the main moral of the story is don’t believe everything you see on the News, often it’s run by corporate greed and fear mongering.

If you don’t want to be Malkied get a ticket before the end of the run.