Morag fullarton biography of barack

  • The arts in Glasgow are under threat in a way they have never been before.
  • A lovingly disrespectful homage to one of the classic films of all time, Morag Fullarton's fast paced distillation will have you raise a Bogart style eyebrow.
  • Based on Billy Wilder's classic film noir, Morag Fullarton's When David MacGonigle's wife dies, his perfect middle-class life collapses around.

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    News & Announcements

    Wed 29th April

    There may be no Pies and no Pints, but we&#;re excited to announce there will be Plays!

    Òran Mór&#;s A Play, A Pie and A Pint will stream a mini årstid of plays from our archives over the next few weeks.

    Actors, writers, composers, directors and film makers have kindly given their permission for us to show their work for PPP online. All that we ask in return is that you man a gåva to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, we&#;ve set up a JustGiving page here 

    We kick off next week on Wednesday 6th May with Sunset Boulevard: The Lunchtime Cut

    Watch this space for more titles.

    We look forward to a time when we can all get together igen to laugh, cry, create and debate.. in the meantime we hope you&#;ll enjoy the plays. So dim the lights, heat a pie, pour a glass&#; and remember to switch your phone off!

    The following plays will be streamed on our YouTube channel, and will be available to view for 5 days (from 1pm Wed &#; 2pm Sun).

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    Publish and Perish: The arts in Glasgow today

    Scottish PEN Trustee Dave Manderson writes on the threat to the arts in Glasgow

    To me, it started with the Art School, where the upsurge in the arts in Glasgow in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries began, and where it ended. When I was finishing my degree at St Andrews in the late s, it was suddenly acceptable to write about the arts of my home, a city that wasn’t supposed to have any. So I did, handed in my essay and got a good mark for it. I’d become fascinated by the way ‘The Mack’ had evolved during its architectural development from a Scottish baronial castle to something modernist; from traditional to experimental, fluid and bold. The tutor’s comments at the bottom of my essay seemed almost excited, as if he wanted me to write more.

    As a Glaswegian in Fife, I was careful to hide my real background. People from my place of birth were ‘cosmopolitan scum’, to use MacDiarmid’s phrase. (Fifers dropped the first word when they

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    Wildcat Stage Productions

    Left-wing theatre and music production company

    Wildcat Stage Productions was an influential left-wing theatre and music production company based in Glasgow.[1] Founded in as a spin-off from the Company, it formed a key part of the Scottish touring theatre network for the next 20 years, creating more than 80 shows and giving many thousands of performances across Scotland, the UK and internationally.[2] The company was named after the term for unofficial industrial action, excluding the word "theatre" from its name to avoid middle-class or bourgeois associations.

    Wildcat launched the careers of a number of now familiar Scottish talent including Dave Anderson, Blythe Duff, Peter Mullan, and Elaine C. Smith. It also premiered The Steamie, one of the best loved pieces of popular entertainment in Scotland in the last half century.[3] In , as part of a wider review, the Scottish Arts Council, precursor to Creative Scotland

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