The Scotsman

Play, Pie and Pint: Outside In

- Joyce Mcmillan

If it’s Autumn, it must be another Play, Pie and Pint lunchtime theatre season; and the latest six-show series shared between Oran Mor and the Traverse opens with Chris Grady’s Outside In, an inspired farce about crime and agoraphobi­a in 21st century Glasgow, followed by James Runcie’s new comedy Tap Dancing With Jean-paul Sartre, which imagines a 1950s moment when Jeanpaul Sartre, Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn meet in Paris to discuss tap dancing, existentia­lism, and the meaning of life.

Outside In, Oran Mor, Glasgow, today and Traverse, Edinburgh, 11-15 September. Tap Dancing with Jean-paul Sartre, Oran Mor 10-15 September; Traverse, 18-22 September and Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, 24-29 September. Tel: 0141-357 6200 / 0131228 1404 / 01224 641122

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