A Play, A Pie And A Pint is continuing its 20th anniversary celebrations well into 2025 with the announcement of its spring season, the inaugural run from the lunchtime theatre company’s new artistic director Brian Logan (pictured above). 

The new season of 18 plays will run from Monday 24 February–Saturday 28 June at Glasgow’s Òran Mór and will continue the company’s USP of providing a brand-new play once a week at lunchtime. Many of the shows will also be performed across the country, including at Ayr's Gaiety, Aberdeen’s The Lemon Tree, and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.

Kicking off the run is Dookin’ Oot, Éimi Quinn’s black comedy tackling the subject of assisted dying with candid humour as a kind carer helps her elderly client out financially with her wish to die in Switzerland by becoming an OnlyFans star. 

Also on the bill is Hell, written by acclaimed duo Jonny & The Baptists, a meta musical-comedy based loosely on Dante’s Inferno; Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh, a politically charged topical comedy set on the Isle of Skye; Wasps, a bittersweet monologue about a young woman with an unrelenting phobia of wasps; and Dancing Shoes, a comedy drama about the unlikely friendship formed between three men in recovery from addiction. They’ll be joined by a slew of other productions covering the gamut of Greek tragedy, surrealism, social drama, disability and more. 

Logan, perhaps best known as The Guardian’s leading comedy critic, was appointed artistic director in summer 2024 after spending 13 years cultivating new talent at Camden People’s Theatre and, before that, with his own company Cartoon De Salvo. 

Logan said, ‘Never were the words “kid” and “candy shop” more aptly joined together than to describe my feelings on programming my first season at A Play, A Pie and A Pint. A brand-new play, with a new creative team, every week for four months? I couldn’t be more excited.

‘Despite the precarious timing, as we and the whole Scottish theatre industry wait with bated breath for next week’s Creative Scotland funding decisions, we’ve committed to our full eighteen-show spring season as usual. We’re also very thankful to our co-presenters for coming on board at this challenging time and for their ongoing commitment to our work and new writing in Scotland.

‘This season has shows offering up all kinds of varieties for all different tastes, with a gothic thriller, jazzy Dundee musical, Greek tragedy, and more for audiences to tuck into every lunchtime at Òran Mór. I have no doubt that audiences will enjoy the wild mix of plays and play-makers (newcomers to PPP alongside plenty of old favourites) as much as we’ve enjoyed assembling it.’

Tickets for A Play, A Pie And A Pint are on sale now; find the full spring 2025 season on the theatre company’s site; main picture: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.