Lunchtime Theatre
PPP: Squash
★★★★☆ Troubling
Macabre and brutalised, Martin McCormick’s nerve-wracking offering for lunchtime theatre, A Play, A Pie and a Pint, has distinctly Lynchian overtones which director Finn Den Hertog relishes in bringing out.
The Queen of Lucky People – Review
✭✭✭✩✩ Cautionary whimsy
The final production in this Spring season of lunchtime theatre at the Traverse, see whimsy runs right through Iain Heggie’s comic, cautionary tale of self delusion and social media use.
Skeleton Wumman – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Puts flesh on bones
Lang syne deid, the Skeleton Wumman is an eerie and intriguing storyteller in Gerda Stevenson’s contribution to this Spring’s season of lunchtime theatre at the Traverse.
A Perfect Stroke – Review
★★★★★ Perfectly stroked:
Tense and nervous drama of the kind that just won’t relax comes to the Traverse this week in the second instalment of the Spring 2014 season of lunch time theatre: A Play a Pie and a Pint.
Secrets
✭✭✭✭✩ Honest and revelatory:
Darkly obscure right up to its thought-provoking finale, the latest edition of A Play, A Pie and A Pint lands at the Bedlam Theatre in a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland and the Confucius Institute.
Review – 3 Seconds
Oran Mor’s lunchtime theatre returns to the Traverse this week with a bruising debut from actress-turned-playwrite Lesley Hart.
Review – Watching the Detective
★★★★☆
They have saved the best until the very last at the Traverse’s A Play, A Pie and A Pint season of lunchtime theatre, with Paddy Cunneen’s gem of a piece: Watching the Detective, performed by Stuart Bowman.
Review – Dig
* * * * By Thom Dibdin A Play, a Pie and a Pint @ Traverse Theatre Lunchtime theatre returned to the Traverse this week with a bang, in Katie Douglas’ hard-hitting Dig. It is the first of a five-week residency for the Play, Pie and Pint series, which also sees a new choice of […]
