Yer Granny

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Based on La Nona by Roberto Cossa Yer Granny is a riotous new comedy about a diabolical 100-year-old granny whos literally eating her family out of house and home. Shes already eaten their fish and chip shop into bankruptcy and now shes working her way through their kitchen cupboards, pushing the Russo family to desperate measures just to survive beyond 1977. As proud head of the family, Cammy is determined that The Minerva Fish Bar will rise again and that family honour will be restored and all in time for the Queens upcoming Jubilee visit. But before Cammys dream can come true and before Her Maj can pop in for a chat, a single sausage and a royal seal of approval, the family members must ask themselves how far they will go to solve a problem like Yer Granny.

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Glasgows southside enters into theatrical mythology * The Stage *
[an] ambitious hymn to human solidarity * Guardian *

Author Bio

Douglas Maxwell has been one of the most popular and produced playwrights in Scotland for over a decade - his work has included Promises Promises (which transferred to New York under the title The Promise in 2011, where it earned a Drama Desk Award Nomination for the actress Joanna Tope); a 10th Anniversary revival of the award winning Decky Does a Bronco; a version of Wedekind's Spring Awakening; The Miracle Man for the NTS, and Small Town, written with DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight. He has written two musicals: Watertight, with music by Richard Taylor and The Bookie with music by Aly Macrae.