Outskirts by Bethany Tennick is a lovely musical play about Queer Culture, Loss, Love, Loneliness and new friendship. 

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 herself out her comfort zone by finding a local Glasgow Gay Bar with the hope she might satisfy long supressed 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!