Packed with cracking one-liners, and brim-full of the sort of the sort of charming, youthful male camaraderie Bill Forsyth captured in That Sinking Feeling and Gregory’s Girl, all three actors turn in fine performances, lapped up by a bumper bank holiday crowd.
It should be said that Stuart Davids' slightly under-rehearsed-looking production hardly flatters McCardie's 50-minute popular comedy, disrupting some of its tragi-comic rhythms. In a few brief scenes, though, the play develops the material for a genuine postmodern Scottish buddy-movie, tackling themes of work and worklessness, sexuality, celebrity, roots, friendship and identity with an impressive lightness of touch and vividness of character, as well as a crowd-pleasing dollop of all-male sentimentality.
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday April 25, 2011, until Saturday April 30, 2011. More info: http://playpiepint.com