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Flick & Pie Go Fishing

Oran Mor, Glasgow

Three stars

 

Flick and Pie are in love. They do their courting by text message from the back of late night buses and under the duvet, fall big for each other and live happily ever. Except, things don’t quite work out like that, as we discover when Pie ends up in A&E with a bloody face after defending Flick’s honour. It wasn’t the tough lads on the bus that caused the damage, however, but someone a whole lot closer to home. Flick might have thought Pie has told her everything over the last few years of their beautiful romance, but it turns out there are a few things she doesn’t know.

 

Laila Noble’s new play for A Play, a Pie and a Pint’s latest season of lunchtime theatre is a fast talking love story that starts off chock-full of youthful charm before the big bad world beyond makes some rude intrusions in terms of domestic bliss. This is carried in Noble’s own production by a pair of dynamic performances from Stephanie MacGaraidh as Flick and Afton Moran as Pie, who spark off each other with the rapid-fire dialogue that powers the first half of the play as the lovesick couple trade emojis. 

 

With Joanna Harte as Flick’s mum Judy providing a bossy but well meaning voice of grown up liberalism, the end result is a solidly old fashioned play that squares up to the complications modern relationships can bring with them in terms of difference and the extremes of some responses to them. Love may survive, but however hopelessly devoted you might be, that catch all phrase of modern dating - it’s complicated - is never far away.


The Herald, October 16th 2025

 

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