It’s A rare day when you get into a Glasgow taxi and the driver doesn’t have a tale to tell.

Cabbies’ working lives can appear to be a series of adventures so incredible, so bizarre and often so funny you’re left wondering why no one has turned them into a stage play. Well, now it’s about to happen in Hacked Off, the new comedy play running at the Pavilion Theatre in October.

The story tells the tale of Harry Convery who plays a taxi driver in the fictional hit BBC Scotland soap, Bonnie Clyde – or at least he did, until his screen character, cheeky chappie Boaby Scobie, ends up in a coma.

Now, Harry has to wait to find out if Boaby lives or dies.

But there’s another disaster to contend with. He’s about to get married to Newton Mearns princess Vivien.

And Harry can’t tell Viv he’s facing the axe. Not only is she stricken by wedding fever, her snooty friends would never accept him as an unemployed actor.

Desperate, he takes a job – in secret – as a real-life taxi driver.

But can Harry hack it? His first day on the job at Hogmanay sees him driven to the edge when he comes up against an array of colourful Glasgow characters.

Just to confuse matters, he’s not at all sure if his Sat Nav is actually talking to him . . .

• Hacked Off, The Pavilion, October 13-23.