New Scottish Soap

A brand new soap, Westenders, is about to be unleashed on Glasgow. You won't find it on the telly though - it's a theatre production that will run for eight weeks from Thursday, 22 October. Each 20 minute episode is free and takes place in Glasgow's Oran Mor.

Some River City behind-the-scenes alumni are involved and they promise some well-kent faces on the stage.

"Pub landlady Ruby has more than her fair share of problems. Her poet husband Rabbie hasn't sold so much as a limerick since 1989. Her bohemian sister Pearl has put the moves on her daughter's boyfriend. Her son has joined the Young Tories. Her mother hates Ruby's husband while living under the same roof and her brother, Diamond, seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. And since the bank headquarters next door started making redundancies, the pub is haemorrhaging trade. Now the bank manager is breathing down her neck, and threatening to foreclose on their loan. Is there anything else that can go wrong? You bet."

You'll find more information about this new kind of soap on the Oran Mor website.