There are worse ways to spend a lunch hour than watching an 18th-century church stramash with a pie in one hand and a pint in the other. From Monday, that is exactly what's on the menu at Òran Mór.

A Play, A Pie and A Pint's autumn season continues with Whaur's Yer Wullie Shakespeare Noo?, a new Scots comedy written and directed by the company's artistic director, Brian Logan. It runs from Monday 28 September to Saturday 3 October and is the first of eight new shows still to come at the West End venue before the season closes on 21 November.

New to the format?

The idea is gloriously simple. One ticket buys a new one-act play, a pie (meat or vegan) and a drink (beer, wine or a soft drink). Shows start at 1pm, Monday to Saturday, with doors at 12pm, or 12.30pm on Mondays, according to the company's website.

This week: a Scots comedy and a scratch night

Whaur's Yer Wullie Shakespeare Noo? takes audiences back to 1756. Despite severe restrictions on theatre, the minister John Home staged his play Douglas, sparking outrage in the Church of Scotland and a fierce debate among clergymen and philosophers. Was it Scotland's answer to Shakespeare, or the work of "a blasphemous hack"? Logan's "freewheeling historical fantasia" re-imagines the affair and asks whether any decent person should be seen dead in the theatre.

Gavin Jon Wright plays John Witherspoon, Kevin Lennon is Alexander Carlyle, Fraser Sivewright is David Hume and Lewie Watson is John Home. The show is co-presented with Aberdeen Performing Arts and the Traverse Theatre, and it tours to Edinburgh and Aberdeen after its Glasgow run.

Tickets are £17 on Monday, £19 from Tuesday to Friday and £22.50 on Saturday. These prices include a £1.50 booking fee, and a small extra fee applies when booking online via Universe. Discounted play-only tickets are available from Tuesday to Thursday for students, arts workers and people who are unemployed or on low incomes or household benefits.

Monday evening brings a bonus: A Slice of the Pie, the company's scratch night for artists it has never worked with before. Three "slices" of new work are performed to an audience for the first time, followed by an open discussion. This time the pieces are Jenni Duffy's Last Train to Glasgow Central, Emre Arslanbek's Citizen Ali and Amy McKenzie's Again, Again. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start, and the evening lasts about 90 minutes. Tickets are £9. Pies and pints are not included, but drinks are available at the bar.

The rest of the season

All shows are at Òran Mór at 1pm, Monday to Saturday.

  • Contact (5–10 Oct): a tragicomedy about a son who gives his mother an ultimatum, by Tony Award-nominated writer and comedian Jonny Donahoe. Directed by Ben Standish.
  • Bottom's Dream (12–17 Oct): Martin O'Connor writes and stars in a spoken word piece blending A Midsummer Night's Dream with Scots-language poetry. Directed by Debbie Hannan.
  • Lune (19–24 Oct): Belgian writer Pamela Ghislain's award-winning drama, performed in English for the first time in a translation by Katherine Mendelsohn. Directed by Wils Wilson.
  • Badhbh-Shìth and the Storytellers (26–31 Oct): Lewis-born Kenny Boyle's folk horror, set in a Hebridean bothy during a storm. It arrives just in time for Halloween. Directed by Ben Harrison.
  • Zamboni (2–7 Nov): Lex Joyce's funny, heartfelt dramedy about three ice-skating instructors after a freak accident. Directed by Anna Whealing.
  • Making Way (9–14 Nov): John Maley's comic take on the vampire myth, and the company's first collaboration with Newcastle's Northern Stage. Directed by Emma Roxburgh.

A big finish

The season closes with Dead Husbands Club (16–21 Nov), written by Rob Drummond (Wallace) and directed by Cora Bissett (The Singer). Emily, Maya and Shelley were each widowed when the same serial killer murdered their husbands. At their regular karaoke catch-up they belt out hits and ask why their husbands were targeted, as the real truth comes out. The company calls it a dark comic drama about "blame, responsibility, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to live with loss". It carries a content notice for murder, domestic abuse and emotional coercion. Tickets are £15.50 on Monday, £17.50 from Tuesday to Friday and £21 on Saturday.

Season tickets

Planning to make it a habit? A mini season ticket costs £70 for any four plays, which works out at £17.50 a show, and you don't need to choose the plays when you book. The full season ticket costs £198 and covers all 12 autumn plays. Four of those have already finished their Glasgow runs, so newcomers may find the mini ticket better value. Season tickets are available from the box office on 0141 357 6211 or in person, Monday to Saturday from 11am to 3pm. They are not valid for the Òran Mór pantos or for shows at other venues.

The autumn season is also listed by What's On Glasgow. Full details and booking are at playpiepint.com.