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Perfect Pie

By: Judith Thompson

Promotional image for Perfect Pie showing four women sitting around a table
Credit: Douglas McBride

Perfect Pie

By: Judith Thompson

Directed by: Maureen Beattie

A Stellar Quines production

In association with: The Byre Theatre, St Andrews, and Perth Theatre

With the support of: Foreign Affairs Canada/avec l’appui d’Affaires étrangères Canada

While Patsy marries a prosperous farmer and stays in the town she grew up in, wild child Francesca follows the lights of the big city as a successful actress. In the course of an afternoon’s reunion between the long-estranged friends, a buried memory and a wild secret crash into the present. Based on a true story, Perfect Pie is an intimate and emotional drama by acclaimed Canadian playwright Judith Thompson.

"An engrossing and very moving night of theatre"

by The List

"Thompson is a fearless writer who has tackled difficult and taboo subjects"

by The Guardian

"Judith Thompson’s excellent and thought-provoking writing makes for a truly memorable theatrical event"

by Bryan Johnston - scottishtheatre.web

Cast

  • Sarah Collier

    Performer

  • Mary Keegan

    Performer

  • Lucy Tuck

    Performer

  • Kirsty Wood

    Performer

Creative Team

  • Judith Thompson

    Writer

  • Maureen Beattie

    Director

  • Jan Bee Brown

    Designer

  • Jeanine Davies

    Lighting Designer

  • Claire Bromhead

    Sound Designer

About The Show

Judith Thompson on her play Perfect Pie: ‘It’s a story that women – especially middle-aged women – can connect with, whether they’ve walked a distance from the past or stayed. It’s when you meet with a person you’ve grown up with and bonded with in a sense, yet you are [now] completely different people.’

Perfect Pie premiered at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto in 2000. It was publicly read at the Old Vic, London, the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of Rehearsal Room 7 in 2004. Perfect Pie was Maureen Beattie’s second project as a director, after her directorial debut in the Borderline Theatre, Perth Theatre and Byre Theatre production of Good Things by Liz Lochhead, which successfully toured Scotland in autumn 2004.

The programmes for Stellar Quines’ production of Perfect Pie included, in the inside back cover, a recipe for the rhubarb pie the character Patsy bakes in the play.

Tour History