Milly Sweeney is a young writer gaining traction. Staged in Pitlochry last year, her play Water Colour, about the changing states of mind of two Glaswegians, earned her the Stage debut award for best writer. Here, she kicks off the lunchtime spring season of A Play, a Pie and a Pint with a sweet-natured two-hander that turns a family anecdote into a quiet study of love, ambition and the pain of growing apart.
It is about Jack and Kathy, who log in separately to online chats with their granddaughter to help with a school assignment about “untold Scottish stories”. They have a particularly good one: on a holiday to Campbeltown in the hot summer of 1976, they made an impromptu attempt to find Paul McCartney’s rural retreat.
