Click here!

Goldilocks and the Glasgow Fair

A Play, a Pie and a Pint present their summer panto!

The script and songs are by Dave Anderson and David MacLennan and the all-star cast is Juliet Cadzow, Cora Bissett, John Kielty and Dave Anderson. Join them for a great family entertainment – suitable for broad-minded children of all ages.

We are on a Heritage Cruise going “Doon the Watter” aboard the Paddle Steamer Waverley. The year is 2011, but the organisers, “Big Society Arts” (a charitable organisation, slogan - “Coming down to your level”) want to take us back to the 1950s, or ‘40s or ‘30s. Depression? What Depression? Nonsense! They’re laying on this trip down Memory Lane, for free, for disadvantaged families. Read more …

Join Granny and the weans, Darren and Blondie as they head for Largs to the strains of the Dixieland jazz band. Marvel at the Children’s Entertainer, whom we might suspect is just a wee bit drunk, and whose act is a tribute to the forgotten skills of the end-of-the-pier artiste. He is doing a “3 Bears” routine involving puppets, but, since he has only two hands and three puppets...

Will Granny drift off into a dream of her childhood doon the watter when the Clyde Coast was Benidorm in the rain? Meet Goldilocks, the three bears and a host of other Panto characters in that world where a Knickerbocker Glory at Nardini’s knocked Spanish Tapas into a Pokey Hat.


The critical consensus

The audience lapped it up, even if the show is far from being one of MacLennan and Anderson’s sharper collaborations.

***(*)(*)Alan Chadwick, The Herald, 06/07/2011

he result is a show where the jokes are sometimes good but often a shade laboured and obscure, and where the political satire – through often timely – emerges in awkward bursts rather than a steady flow. There are plenty of good laughs, though, for those who like their panto with a socialist twist.

***(*)(*)Joyce McMillan, 07/07/2011

Where and when?

A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday July 4, 2011, until Saturday July 23, 2011. More info: http://playpiepint.com

Comments: 0 (Add)

To post a comment, you need to sign in or register. Forgotten password? Click here.

Find a show


Search the site


Find us on …

Find us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterFind us on YouTube