Òran Mór, Glasgow Three stars Margaret has lost her way. No, not in the geographical sense. The Glasgow gay bar this American émigré of a certain age has just landed in on a rainy Friday night is a place she specifically sought out. For what, though? Comfort? A friendly face? A cheeky cocktail as she bonds with strangers? Sure, Margaret gets all of these and more eventually in Bethany Tennick’s lunchtime mini musical for A Play, a Pie and a Pint’s latest season, but the welcome she initially gets from bar manager Dove isn’t exactly warm. Even so, Margaret’s lack of direction comes from somewhere else. As a workaholic whose grown up offspring have decamped all the way to Australia, she has an empty spot where some kind of love used to live. Dove, meanwhile, has issues of her own to deal with, some of which may or may not be solved by the contents of the mysterious package her sidekick Si has been despatched to collect. When Si attempts to cast a spell to pur...
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