A Man, a Play, a Pie, a Pint Face to Face Face to Face He Was Written Off As a has-Been. Then David Maclennan Scored a Spectacular Success with Lunchtime Speed Drama. As the Fourth Season Approaches, He Applauds Those Who Helped - and Takes a Swipe at His Enemies

The Herald › January 23, 2006

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JUST the other week, David MacLennan saw Woody Allen being interviewed on television by Andrew Marr, who asked if he was happy. Summoning that cranky ruefulness which in Allen is as close as it gets to charisma, the movie auteur replied: "Well, as far as it is possible to be happy in the human condition."

That qualification resonated with MacLennan because it chimed with his experience of fortune's vagaries over the past eight years; a time in which he has travelled from being branded publicly as past his sell-by date to being now the applauded proof that his detractors were wrong.

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A Man, a Play, a Pie, a Pint Face to Face Face to Face He Was Written Off As a has-Been. Then David Maclennan Scored a Spectacular Success with Lunchtime Speed Drama. As the Fourth Season Approaches, He Applauds Those Who Helped - and Takes a Swipe at His Enemies

On February 6, MacLennan will resume his impresario role as the man who makes a drama out of lunchtime when the fourth season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint opens at Oran Mor in Glasgow, with The Matinee Idle by young, Scottish newcomer Daniel Jackson. These days MacLennan, on the crest of accumulated good reviews, is confident that the latest tranche of works will further tease and engage an audie...

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