25 years ago there was a legendary Highlands and Islands tour of Liz Lochhead's adaptation of Tartuffe. The tour became legend as the broken marriages, broken noses and broken dreams of the actors provided more drama offstage than on. Read more …
In the present day, three survivors of the tour take the play on again. Older but definitely not wiser can they navigate the secrets of their past to make the dress rehearsal? Will Liz Lochhead allow them to even put it on? And at their age can they remember any of the bloody lines?
Andy Gray steals the show in Martin McCardie’s hilarious tale of Scottish theatre folk.
A disappointing piece of luvvie navel-gazing, self-pitying, self-obsessed, and dull.
Witty and mischievous and with three perfectly-pitched comic performances, only its slight lack of accessibility to an audience not overly familiar with the homegrown theatre scene stops it being a classic.
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday September 5, 2011, until Saturday September 10, 2011. More info: http://playpiepint.com
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday November 1, 2011, until Saturday November 5, 2011. More info: www.traverse.co.uk