SCOTLAND’S THEATRE IN THE HILLS
MAY - DECEMBER 2016 Carousel • Thark • GamePlan • FlatSpin • RolePlay This Happy Breed • Hard Times Para Handy • Scrooge - The Musical
“The stylistic equivalent of a West End producing theatre set against a picture- postcard backdrop of rolling Perthshire hills” The Herald at Scotland’s favourite theatre – one which promises to be the most exciting of recent years!
For the first time since 1996, the unique Alongside this musical masterpiece, we Jeffreys’ adaptation of Dickens’Hard rounding off the year at PFT will be the British theatrical phenomenon that is have the first UK revival since its 2002 Times, a thrilling story of betrayal and quintessential festive musical: Leslie PFT’s Summer Season will contain seven première of Ayckbourn’s extraordinary sacrifice set in 1840s Lancashire. Bricusse’s Scrooge, a snowy Victorian shows: so this year, you’ll be able to stay Damsels In Distress trilogy: three Christmas treat for all the family! Information about other events and six days and see seven plays! completely different modern comedies, activities during the Summer Season, With everything from modern comedy including Sunday concerts, brand new to period drama to musicals on offer Opening this festival of theatre will be the first Active Arts workshops, our ever popular throughout 2016 - all staged to the tours and talks, and the Explorers remarkably high production standards Rodgers & Hammerstein musical ever to be staged Garden (newly endorsed by the Royal for which PFT is renowned - there is at PFT, the much-loved, deeply moving Carousel Horticultural Society!), plus details of the bound to be something here to suit many places to stay in Pitlochry, from every taste. So we hope that you’ll be “ B&Bs to 5 star boutique hotels, can also eager to join us for some or all of the The Summer Season will feature two but all performed on the same set by be found in this brochure. productions on offer at Scotland’s Most very special theatrical events. Opening the same seven actors. There are even Welcoming Theatre (our most recent Moving into the Autumn, we’re this festival of theatre will be the first two special Trilogy Days, when you can accolade in the 2015 UK Theatre Awards) ” delighted to be staging only the second- Rodgers & Hammerstein musical ever see all three plays in a single day! during another great year at the Theatre ever production of Para Handy, John to be staged at PFT, the much-loved, in the Hills! The Season also includes Clive Francis’ Bett’s marvellous adaptation of a deeply moving Carousel, which follows acclaimed 2013 “revision” of Thark, selection of Neil Munro’s iconic stories – John Durnin in the footsteps of PFT’s sell-out Ben Travers’ hilarious haunted house complete with its own ceilidh band! And Chief Executive & Artistic Director productions of Kiss Me, Kate, My Fair farce; a rare revival of Noël Coward’s Lady and Hello, Dolly! classic family drama of the inter-war
years, This Happy Breed; and Stephen • For visually impaired visitors, we have an Access All Areas audio description service which can be Scotland’s Most Welcoming • Disabled parking is reserved near the main provided for any performance, as long as Box Theatre, 2015 entrance. Office are given prior notice. • Wheelchair users can access all facilities. • Also for visually impaired visitors, we A courtesy wheelchair can also be booked endeavour to arrange touch tours before a in advance. There are four spaces for performance (subject to availability). wheelchair users in the auditorium. • Guide dogs, hearing dogs and dogs for the • For those with impaired hearing, an induction disabled are very welcome. Please advise the loop is available. Personal sound amplifiers Box Office in advance if you’re bringing are also available and can be booked your dog. in advance.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland Number SC029243 at the address below. • Scottish Charity Number SC013055 • Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry, PH16 5DR • Administration: 01796 484600 • Box Office: 01796 484626 • Email: boxoffice@ PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com • Website: www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01 Stay 6 Days, See 7 Plays
Carousel Music by Richard Rodgers Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
“Jest keep yer faith and courage, and you’ll come out all right. It’s like what we used to sing when I went to school. ‘When you walk through a storm keep yer chin up high . . . ’ Know thet one?”
New England, 1873: when a travelling problems, Billy doesn’t take much carnival pitches up in a small fishing persuading. But the robbery goes village, an unlikely relationship develops horribly wrong - and Billy ends up risking between the charismatic carousel not only his life, but also his immortal barker, Billy Bigelow, and Julie Jordan, soul . . . a naïve local mill worker. Within weeks A dramatic testament to the enduring - and against everyone’s advice - the power of love, Carousel is Rodgers & seemingly ill-matched lovers are Hammerstein’s towering achievement. married. Featuring a large cast and live orchestra, But Billy’s fiery temper quickly causes PFT’s flagship production for 2016 problems for the newly-weds. After promises unforgettable musical losing his job, Billy begins to feel entertainment, including June Is Bustin’ hemmed in by the constraints of Out All Over, If I Loved You, Mr. Snow married life. And his financial difficulties and, of course, the heart-rending You’ll quickly mount. The discovery that he Never Walk Alone. is soon to be a father only intensifies If you enjoyed our previous productions Billy’s need to find some cash – and fast. of Broadway classics, such as My Fair So when Billy’s friend, the shady sailor Lady, Hello, Dolly! and Kiss Me, Kate, Jigger, suggests that robbing the local you’ll love this! mill owner could solve all of Billy’s
“Sparkling lyrics and ravishing score.” The Telegraph
“Rodgers’ score is a seamless delight. And Hammerstein’s lyrics are, arguably, his very best.” The Guardian
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Thark by Ben Travers adapted by Clive Francis
“I do wish you’d stop calling it that. Besides, it isn’t haunted. It’s just unlived in. Ridiculous to call it haunted.”
Things are looking up for sporting, Hector manages to talk his way out of man-about-town, Sir Hector Benbow . . . the, er, marital misunderstanding. But it seems that the only way to convince Not only has he finally managed to Mrs. Frush not to renege on the house offload his gloomy country pile, Thark, purchase is for the Benbows to decamp onto an unsuspecting buyer, but he’s to Thark - and prove that it is untainted also caught the eye of the beautiful by the supernatural. Cherry Buck. And while his wife is away visiting friends, Hector plans a romantic But Thark – a very strange house, liaison à deux. inhabited by an even stranger butler and several things that go bump in the Unfortunately, Lady Benbow returns night – has other plans . . . home unexpectedly - and Hector has to act fast. Helped by Ronny, his plucky Ben Travers’s classic 1927 Aldwych nephew, Cherry is passed off as Mrs. farce, in a glorious new version by Clive Frush, the new owner of Thark - only for Francis, is fast-paced, rip-roaring and the real Mrs. Frush to suddenly turn up, hilariously inventive: perfect Summer complaining that the house she bought entertainment! If See How They Run! or in good faith turns out to be haunted . . . Noises Off tickled your fancy, don’t miss this!
“A joyous evening” The Guardian
“Wonderfully funny” “Pure joy to watch” The Daily Telegraph The Times
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GamePlan by Alan Ayckbourn
“They say you can buy just about anything on the internet, these days, don’t they?”
Sorrel Saxon has a pretty wonderful life: online, of course - as a provider of . . . she attends a posh private school and ahem . . . “adult services” . . . lives in a smart Docklands apartment, Roping in her gawky best friend, this enviable lifestyle made possible by Kelly, to assist, Sorrel prepares to her parents’ lucrative online business. entertain her first client. But dabbling Yes, a pretty wonderful life . . . in ‘the oldest profession’ is never Until, that is, Sorrel’s father walks out, straightforward. And Sorrel’s plan the family business collapses, her falls apart before it even starts. And mother Lynette has to take a cleaning when the police knock at the door job and there’s no money to pay the investigating a suspected murder, school fees. Then Sorrel is faced with changing schools is the least of Sorrel’s the prospect of bidding her wonderful problems . . . life farewell and moving to somewhere The first play in Ayckbourn’s dazzling more affordable. Like Birmingham . . . Damsels In Distress trilogy, GamePlan Appalled, Sorrel decides that she has is a sharp, contemporary black comedy to arrest her family’s downward spiral. of metropolitan morals and mishaps. Unfortunately, her plan to turn things If you enjoyed Communicating Doors, around involves reinventing herself - you’ll love this!
“ . . . bold running gags . . . one must give thanks that Ayckbourn is still knocking them out after all these years.” The Daily Telegraph
“ . . . constantly entertaining “absorbing and entertaining” and alert.” The Scotsman on The Sunday Times Communicating Doors, 2012
Each play in this trilogy is an entirely separate, stand-alone story, featuring completely different characters. Uniquely, however, all three plays share the same actors - and the same set!
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FlatSpin by Alan Ayckbourn
“This is a – what do you call it – a sting.”
The things actors have to do when But dinner doesn’t quite go to plan. they’re out of work . . . What with the strange phone calls, Sam leaving abruptly, the pair of Rosie, for example, takes cleaning jobs. heavies turning up at the door, the Today, it’s a swish Docklands apartment discovery that the flat’s bugged and she’s tackling with the Marigolds, whilst the whole drug smuggling thing. Soon, coping with the disappointment of Rosie realises there’s an awful lot she having just missed out on a big TV job. doesn’t know about the woman she’s And then the doorbell rings . . . impersonating. And that no one is quite It’s Sam, a new neighbour of the flat’s who they seem. And that she just might absentee occupant, Joanna. Sam is be in an awful lot of danger . . . kind, handsome, sympathetic . . . and With echoes of Hitchcock’s North By an investment consultant. So when he Northwest, FlatSpin is an hilarious, mistakes the dispirited Rosie for Joanna high-energy story of mistaken identity, and offers to pop back later to cheer magic and misdirection, featuring twist, her up by cooking dinner for them both, after twist, after twist. If last Season’s singleton Rosie can’t help thinking her Improbable Fiction had you splitting luck’s about to change - over a plate of your sides, book your seats now! gnocchi with Sam.
“If you want to fall flat with laughter, then giveFlatSpin a whirl.” Yorkshire Post
“Alan Ayckbourn is unstoppable.” “Absolute genius” The Guardian The Herald on Improbable Fiction, 2015
Each play in this trilogy is an entirely separate, stand-alone story, featuring completely different characters. Uniquely, however, all three plays share the same actors - and the same set! Please note that this play contains occasional strong language
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RolePlay by Alan Ayckbourn “We could both have got typhoid, you know. That’s the trouble with eating by candlelight all the time. You never notice the state of the cutlery.”
Whilst a storm gathers force outside sharp ‘bodyguard’, Micky Rale, fills the their Docklands apartment, the newly- doorway . . . engaged Justin and Julie-Ann — they’re No sooner have Justin and Julie-Ann in IT, you know — are preparing for a discovered their unexpected guests, very special dinner. It’s time to get to than Julie-Ann’s parents, Dee and Derek know the respective parents and on an arrive (Derek’s big in garden centres in occasion like this, everything has to be Doncaster, by the way). And hot on their just right. heels – and all the way from Godalming Only there’s a pudding fork missing. – comes Justin’s flamboyant mother, And a woman has just fallen onto their Arabella, who appears to be . . . well, balcony . . . several drinks ahead of everyone else . . .
The new arrival - who has quite literally A wickedly funny and sometimes dropped in from the flat above – is poignant story of love, lust and the former lapdancer Paige Petite, on the hazards of dinner parties, the third part run from her abusive boxing promoter of the Damsels In Distress trilogy is boyfriend. But Paige’s escape is short- classic Ayckbourn. If you loved PFT’s lived . . . and it’s only moments before hugely popular A Chorus Of Disapproval, the shape of her menacing, none-too- you won’t want to miss this!
“This is Ayckbourn in great form, “. . . magisterial cunning . . . the funny, subtle and satisfying.” writing is as funny, nimble and The Times lethally observed as ever.” The Sunday Times
The Scotsman on A Chorus Of Disapproval, 2013
Each play in this trilogy is an entirely separate, stand-alone story, featuring completely different characters. Uniquely, however, all three plays share the same actors - and the same set! Please note that this play contains occasional strong language
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This Happy Breed by Noël Coward
“ . . . it’s up to us ordinary people to keep things steady. That’s your job, my son, and just you remember it.”
1919: almost unscathed from his time in subject to all the usual trials and the trenches, Frank Gibbons returns to tribulations: political awakenings, civilian life, starts a new job in a travel doomed romances, tragic accidents, agency and moves his wife, Ethel, their unexpected weddings, and shameful three children, Reg, Vi and Queenie, and elopements, the human face of the his mother-in-law, Mrs. Flint, into a new two momentous decades between home near Clapham Common. the wars stretching from the coming of the Jazz Age, the General Strike and On the day of the move to Number 17 the Depression, to the rise of fascism, Sycamore Road, Frank is delighted to appeasement and Munich. discover that their nearest neighbour is Bob Mitchell, an old comrade-in-arms Written in the spring of 1939, but rarely whom he had given up for dead in 1915. seen on the stage after David Lean’s With the Mitchells – Bob, his wife Nora, magnificent film version was released and son Billy - living cheek by jowl with in 1944, Coward’s saga of the lives and the Gibbonses, the two families adapt loves of one lower-middle-class family to life in suburbia - and to peacetime. and their friends during a turbulent period of history is warm-hearted, Over the next 20 years, as their parents funny, deeply moving and infused with slip into middle-age, the children grow a love of Britain and its people. up to become the next generation,
“The play is an exquisitely rendered slice of suburban life that Coward subtly spins into a web of neighbourly and family relations.” The Daily Mail
“ . . . gripping, good-hearted play” The Times and EdinburghGuide The Telegraph on Present Laughter, 2013
Sponsored by Mrs Katharine Liston in loving memory of Iain Liston
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens adapted for the stage by Stephen Jeffreys
“Now, what I want is, facts. Facts alone are what is wanted in life. Plant nothing else in your mind and root out everything else.”
Lancashire, the 1840s: when her father, Gradgrind sees many advantages to an a circus performer, mysteriously alliance with a man of such wealth and disappears, young Sissy Jupe is offered influence. And much to Sissy’s disgust, a place at Mr. Gradgrind’s school – and the beautiful but passionless Louisa a job in Gradgrind’s household as a agrees to the match. servant. Torn between two worlds, Sissy Tom, however, is jealous of his sister’s decides to leave the circus behind and apparent good fortune and longs for a start a new life. similar life of wealth and ease. So when But in Gradgrind’s school - and home a wave of unrest sweeps the town, Tom - there is no place for imagination or seizes an opportunity to line his pockets play. Gradgrind worships only reason – and ensure that someone far less and logic. And Sissy and Gradgrind’s fortunate than he takes the blame . . . children, Louisa and Tom, are raised to A thrilling, moving and ultimately distrust “fancy” and believe only in cold, uplifting story of betrayal, sacrifice hard fact . . . and redemption, Dickens’ great novel When she reaches adulthood, Louisa of the triumph of the imagination over catches the eye of bombastic mill owner the brutality of the new industrial age and self-made man, Josiah Bounderby. is brought vividly to life in Stephen Jeffreys’ magnificent adaptation.
“The strength of this version . . . is its preservation of the satiric vitality of Dickens’ original, and a real feel for the superb rhetoric of his prose.” Time Out
“ . . . captures the volume of suppressed anger in the text, a passion whose delicate control makes a thriller out of mawkishness.” The Independent
Dedicated to the hard-working staff and cast at PFT. You all do a wonderful job. Anne
01796 484626 | PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 15 Stay 6 Days, See 7 Plays AT RY TH G STO T” DURIN ABOU ULLY EN LD BE WONDERF E SHOU “A AT LIF m RMS WH ge.co THE TIMES REAFFI onsta Whats on White Christmas, 2012 With a scintillating score by Lesley Bricusse, whose Christmas Eve, 1843: credits include Pickwick, EDINBURGHGUIDE the cruel money- Dr. Dolittle and Willy on It’s A Wonderful lender Ebenezer This festive musical, based Wonka And The Life, 2013 Scrooge is confronted on Dickens’ much-loved A Chocolate Factory, Christmas Carol, started life by the ghost of the show features THE HERALD as the memorable 1970 film his former partner, the wonderful Jacob Marley, who on Miracle On starring Albert Finney before Thank You Very 34th Street, 2014 transferring to the stage. warns Scrooge that Much, I Hate Scotsman Edinburgh Evening News he faces damnation The Scottish première People and the Tickets On production - featuring a unless he mends his classic Sing A sale now! large cast and live band, ways. Can Scrooge be Christmas See page 26 - 27 spectacular sets and redeemed? All will be Carol! for prices & offers Catch a costumes, and spooky decided by the three Christmas special effects - promises spirits who visit him Coach! to be one of the most in the course of See page 42 memorable Christmas the night . . . musicals ever staged at PFT! 02-23 DEC See page 25 for dates & times.
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This autumn, set sail with Warm, witty and utterly the irrepressible captain charming, this rare chance of The Vital Spark and his to enjoy the hilarious ramshackle crew - mate misadventures of Para Handy Dougie, engineer Macphail on stage is accompanied by and cabin-boy Sunny Jim - as a rousing, foot-stomping they travel from a West Coast musical score performed by Book, music and lyrics by breakers’ yard to the sea lochs a live band! of the Highlands and Islands. tickets now on sale Lesley 01796 484626 | PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Bricus03se Secrets of the Stage Brand new version for 2016! Most Fridays from 01 July to 14 October, 11.00am–12.30pm
This hugely popular costumes from past PFT the talk will be a ‘sneaky illustrated talk is shows. You will also have peek’ at the production once again led by our the opportunity to have being “fitted up” on stage Community & Education answered any questions that day and a look at Director, Drew Scott. It you may have about our how PFT has changed covers all aspects of PFT’s productions. since its early days in the stage productions: from tent, as well as our vision Wardrobe Having spent several set design and auditions for the future. years as Stage Manager to the rehearsal and set Backstage Tours Post Show Talks here at PFT, Drew is Price £7.50 building process, using Always popular, our guided tours take Join PFT’s Artistic Director, John Durnin, ideally placed to give a (Includes tea/coffee set models, props and you behind the scenes to reveal the as he offers a director’s insight into both personal insight into life and a Danish pastry) secret spaces and inner workings the show you’ve just seen and PFT’s backstage. Included in of PFT! unique repertoire system. In addition you will have the chance to meet some You’ll visit the Green Room, where our of the cast and discuss the show cast and crew relax and prepare to go on with them. stage, see where and how our elaborate costumes are made, have a look at our During this talk, you will also see the huge scenery workshop, visit the docks stage set being ‘turned around’ for the where sets are stored – and, of course, evening performance of a completely set foot on the famous PFT stage itself! different play. We think that’s worth seeing for the ticket price alone! Along the way, you’ll discover lots of fascinating facts and learn how to tell a Price: £3.00, Time: Approximately 5 gravetrap from a swing technician! minutes after the performance.
Tours run on most Wednesdays from Carousel ...... 20 July 29 June until 12 October. Thark ...... 10 August Time: 11.00am FlatSpin ...... 24 August Price: £5.00 This Happy Breed . . . . 08 September
(These walking tours last one-and-a- RolePlay ...... 14 September half hours and will involve some stair Hard Times ...... 05 October climbing). GamePlan ...... 12 October It would help our Front of House staff immensely if you could leave the auditorium briefly at the end of the performance to allow them to clean. Thank you. The Lady In 18 01796 484626 | PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com The Van, 2015 01796 484626 | PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 19 Supporters’ Events Preview Performances Backstage Tours Post Show Talk Stay 6 Days, See 7 Plays Stay 6 Days, See 7 Plays Secrets of the Stage
Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (8.00pm) Diary 2016 THUR 30 GamePlan “The stylistic equivalent of a West End producing theatre set against a picture-postcard backdrop of rolling Perthshire hills” July The Herald FRI 01 RolePlay SAT 02 Carousel Thark May Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (8.00pm) SUN 03 Red Pine Timber Company FRI 27 Carousel MON 04 GamePlan SAT 28 Carousel Carousel TUES 05 Carousel June WED 06 Carousel FlatSpin THUR 02 Thark Thark THUR 07 Thark FRI 03 Carousel FRI 08 Carousel
SAT 04 Carousel Thark SAT 09 GamePlan RolePlay
SUN 05 Three Broads and a Piano SUN 10 You’ve Got A Friend
MON 06 Jambouree Cabaret Singers MON 11 Thark
THUR 09 GamePlan GamePlan TUES 12 Carousel
FRI 10 Thark WED 13 Carousel FlatSpin
SAT 11 Thark Carousel THUR 14 GamePlan
SUN 12 North Sea Gas FRI 15 Carousel
MON 13 Dr Knox and the West Port Murders SAT 16 RolePlay Thark
THUR 16 FlatSpin FlatSpin SUN 17 Scocha!
FRI 17 GamePlan MON 18 FlatSpin
SAT 18 Carousel Thark TUES 19 Carousel
SUN 19 Amos & Jauncey WED 20 Carousel Thark MON 20 Jambouree Cabaret Singers THUR 21 RolePlay
THUR 23 RolePlay RolePlay FRI 22 Carousel FRI 24 FlatSpin SAT 23 Thark GamePlan
SAT 25 GamePlan Carousel THUR 28 This Happy Breed This Happy Breed
SUN 26 Fred Macaulay FRI 29 RolePlay
MON 27 RolePlay SAT 30 Thark Carousel
TUES 28 Thark SUN 31 A Fawlty Towers Tribute Murder Mystery Night
WED 29 Carousel FlatSpin
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TUES 02 This Happy Breed FRI 02 Thark
WED 03 This Happy Breed FlatSpin SAT 03 FlatSpin Carousel
THUR 04 Carousel SUN 04 September Songs
FRI 05 RolePlay MON 05 GamePlan
SAT 06 Carousel Thark TUES 06 Hard Times
SUN 07 Capercaillie WED 07 Hard Times RolePlay
MON 08 This Happy Breed THUR 08 This Happy Breed Carousel
TUES 09 Thark FRI 09 FlatSpin
WED 10 Thark RolePlay SAT 10 Carousel Thark THUR 11 GamePlan SUN 11 Fiddlers’ Rally
FRI 12 FlatSpin MON 12 Hard Times
SAT 13 This Happy Breed Carousel TUES 13 GamePlan
SUN 14 Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham WED 14 RolePlay FlatSpin MON 15 RolePlay THUR 15 Carousel This Happy Breed
TUES 16 Carousel FRI 16 Thark
WED 17 Carousel FlatSpin SAT 17 Hard Times Carousel
THUR 18 GamePlan SUN 18 Hotel California
FRI 19 This Happy Breed MON 19 FlatSpin SAT 20 RolePlay Thark TUES 20 Thark
SUN 21 One Night of Queen WED 21 Thark Hard Times
MON 22 Carousel THUR 22 Carousel
TUES 23 GamePlan FRI 23 This Happy Breed
WED 24 FlatSpin This Happy Breed SAT 24 11.00am GamePlan 3.30pm FlatSpin 8.00pm RolePlay THUR 25 RolePlay Buy a special Trilogy Ticket for only £65.00 – saving up to £25.00! FRI 26 Thark Each play in this trilogy is an entirely separate, stand-alone story, featuring completely different SAT 27 Carousel This Happy Breed characters. Uniquely, however, all three plays share the same actors - and the same set! SUN 28 Merlin & The King
MON 29 Auld Hats, New Heids
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MON 26 Thark November
TUES 27 GamePlan WED 02 Para Handy Para Handy
WED 28 FlatSpin RolePlay THUR 03 Para Handy Para Handy
THUR 29 This Happy Breed Carousel FRI 04 Para Handy SAT 05 Para Handy Para Handy FRI 30 Hard Times SUN 06 Para Handy
October WED 09 Para Handy Para Handy
SAT 01 Thark Carousel THUR 10 Para Handy Para Handy
SUN 02 Back to Bacharach FRI 11 Para Handy
MON 03 This Happy Breed SAT 12 Para Handy Para Handy
TUES 04 Hard Times SUN 13 Para Handy WED 05 Hard Times RolePlay THUR 06 Carousel December Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (7.00pm) FRI 07 Thark FRI 02 Scrooge - The Musical SAT 03 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical SAT 08 11.00am GamePlan 3.30pm FlatSpin 8.00pm RolePlay SUN 04 Scrooge - The Musical Buy a special Trilogy Ticket for only £65.00 – saving up to £25.00! WED 07 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical Each play in this trilogy is an entirely separate, stand-alone story, featuring completely different characters. Uniquely, however, all three plays share the same actors - and the same set! THUR 08 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical FRI 09 Scrooge - The Musical
MON 10 This Happy Breed SAT 10 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical
TUES 11 Carousel SUN 11 Scrooge - The Musical
WED 12 GamePlan FlatSpin WED 14 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical
THUR 13 RolePlay Thark THUR 15 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical
FRI 14 Hard Times FRI 16 Scrooge - The Musical
SAT 15 This Happy Breed Carousel SAT 17 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical
SUN 18 Scrooge - The Musical Para Handy Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (7.30pm) TUES 20 Scrooge - The Musical THUR 27 Para Handy WED 21 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical FRI 28 Para Handy THUR 22 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical SAT 29 Para Handy Para Handy FRI 23 Scrooge - The Musical Scrooge - The Musical SUN 30 Para Handy
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STAGE Show Offers Save All Summer Unless otherwise indicated, these SS Saver Seats – only £15.00! offers expire15th April, 2016 - so Book a minimum of 24 hours in advance don’t delay, book today! and get the best seats available on the Buy tickets to see all 7 Summer night (only 50 seats available per show, Season shows and get your ticket seats are allocated on the morning of 7 the performance). WHEELCHAIRS to see Scrooge free!
Buy tickets for 3 Monday to Friday Groups (8+) offers 6 Summer shows and get £4.50 off Turn to page 41 to discover special ticket per ticket! offers and food options for Groups.
Double discount for Senior Citizens. Buy tickets to see 2 shows in June Concessions: 5 and get £5.00 off the total cost! (Available in Bands , & ) Friends: £2.00 off per ticket Vital Spark! Pay only £15.00 per Senior Citizens: £2.50 off matinées and ticket to see Para Handy if you now also Friday evenings! 4 book before 26 May. All aboard . . . Carousel Plays Registered Disabled: £17.50 per ticket Preview Mon-Thur Matinées & Sat Preview Mon-Thur Matinées & Sat Spirit of Christmas Future! Evenings Fri Evenings Evenings Evenings Fri Evenings Evenings Family tickets: £50, 2 adults & Pay only £18.50 per ticket to 1 £28.00 £30.00 £32.50 £35.00 1 £25.00 £26.00 £30.00 £32.50 2 children. 3 see Scrooge. Offer applies to 2 £26.00 £28.00 £30.00 £32.50 2 £22.50 £23.50 £27.50 £30.00 performances between Sun 4 and Under-18/Student/unemployed: 3 £22.50 £25.00 £27.50 £30.00 3 £20.00 £21.00 £25.00 £27.50 Fri 9 December. Expires 26 May. Half Price 4 £17.50 £18.50 £20.00 £25.00 4 £15.00 £16.00 £19.00 £22.50 Damsels in Distress Offers How to Book: SS N/A £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 SS N/A £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 RolePlay, FlatSpin and GamePlan By Phone: Call 01796 484626. Lines open from 9.00am. Scrooge Buy a Trilogy Ticket (see all 3 shows Previews Wed & Thu Tue-Thu Sat & Sun Fri & Sat Transaction Fees apply to advertised ticket prices. If in one day) and pay only £65.00 - Online: PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Matinées Evening Matinées Evening paying by card, the Transaction Fee is 25p for Debit 2 save up to £25.00! Cards and £1.50 for Credit Cards. If booking via our By Post: Write to us at Pitlochry Festival 1 £20.00 £27.50 £22.50 £30.00 £32.50 website, the Transaction Fee is £1.50. There is no Transaction Fee for paying with cash or cheque at Theatre, Port na Craig, Pitlochry PH16 2 £17.50 £25.00 £20.00 £27.50 £30.00 the Box Office. Buy a ticket to see all 3 Damsels plays (on any dates) and get one 2 5DR. Please make cheques payable to 3 £15.50 £22.50 £17.50 £25.00 £27.50 Please note: Event and ticketing information is correct at time of going to print. Changes in the 1 course dinner for free – save £22.95! Pitlochry Festival Theatre and enclose programme of events may occur, so please do check 4 £12.50 £20.00 £15.00 £22.50 £25.00 online or at the Box Office. We reserve the right to an SAE or 75p for postage. make changes to the programme, ticket prices and All offers, Friends, Groups, Senior Citizen concessions and SS N/A £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00 seating plans. In Person: Visit Box Office, open every Saver Seats do not apply to Previews and Band 1 seats. All offers are subject to availability and cannot be used in day from 10.00am, or pop into Just the Published prices are subject to conjunction with concessions or other offers. Full terms Ticket! on the main street, Pitlochry. change without notification. and conditions apply and are available to view online or at Box Office.
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Festival Restaurant & Café Bar Gallery & Shop Offering “one of the Best Views in Scotland” The( Scotsman) in “a stunning location” (The Guardian), PFT’s Restaurant and Café Bar provide tasty, The Festival Gallery displays the work of leading Visit our Shop and you’ll wholesome and contemporary food, daily specials and a wide range of Scottish artists in a range of media and from traditional find inspired gift ideas to contemporary styles. by the dozen! Loved by refreshments, light lunches and snacks all at a reasonable price. visitors and locals alike, A blend of both returning artists and first time this is just the place Our Head Chef uses Two courses: £22.95 exhibitors, there are over 200 works of art on display at to unearth a range of fresh and wherever any time throughout the year, with something to suit Three courses: £25.95 theatrical treasures, possible, local produce to all tastes - and pockets! create special signature Open for lunch seven books, music, stylish menus for each play in days a week, why not jewellery, handmade our Summer Season. combine spectacular handbags, glassware, Dinner is prepared on the views with attentive ceramics, chocolate . . . premises and is served service and freshly Open daily from 6.30pm on Monday made, stylish food par 10am to 10pm to Saturday (and on excellence - whatever (performance days) Sunday when a concert is the weather! 10am to 5pm scheduled) – and we can Please note: All Restaurant prices (non-performance days) guarantee that you won’t are subject to change without notice. miss curtain up!
For pre-theatre dining, we recommend that you book in advance.
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concert, they will be King needs you to step guests and soloists - will joined by some surprise out on a Royal quest! raise the roof with 70 guests on a celebration Experience a magical sets of strings. Expect a trip round Scotland medieval adventure in spectacular concert and a which includes a series the Explorers Garden whole lot of energy! of nostalgic images from adjacent to Pitlochry all those years, together Festival Theatre. Capercaille Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham Hotel California with tunes from a new Sun 18 Sept, £20.00 album! Auld Hats, You’ve Got They are the most Capercaillie We welcome back this entertaining Scottish New Heids terrific band - endorsed A Friend Sun 07th August, £25.00 Folk ’n Roll band around! One Night Mon 29 August, £12.50 by original Eagles band Sun 10 July, £18.50 At The Heart Of It All, the www.scocha.com Of Queen Four of Scotland’s top members – for a fantastic A concert-style show group’s 30th anniversary Sun 21 August, £22.50 folk singers recreate the concert performance of with a West End cast, concert (and album) Firmly established as fun days of the 60s & 70s a brand new show about based on the friendship A Fawlty Towers features old Hebridean the true Champions of Scottish Folk Club scene. The Eagles. This night is and music of Carole Tribute Murder folksongs enriched by Queen, Gary Mullen and Join Fraser & Ian Bruce, sure to include special King and James Taylor. Mystery Night compelling contemporary The Works bring their Pete Clark and Gregor tributes to the late, great Expect to hear classic Sun 31 July, 7.30pm for arrangements. A Magic to Rock You on Lowrey for a great night Glenn Frey. hits including I Feel The 8.00pm, £32.00 remarkable opportunity the Pitlochry Stage for a out. Be ready for some Earth Move, Will You Still to see a group that has Britain’s favourite TV night of pure Rhapsody! serious sing along! Back to Love Me Tomorrow, How played a seminal role show gathers at a Top Always a sell-out show Bacharach Sweet It Is (To Be Loved Secret venue for the in shaping Scotland’s when they play PFT. September Songs Sun 02 October, £22.50 By You), Fire & Rain, You annual ‘Get it Together’ cultural landscape. Sun 04 September, £12.50 Make Me Feel (Like A Join us as we celebrate Gala. Hosts Basil & Sybil Merlin & The King Natural Woman) and the Fawlty, in their trademark Aly Bain & Phil A magical mix of songs the music of the legend The Walking Theatre beautiful You’ve Got A way ‘almost’ welcome all old and new from stage Burt Bacharach. This Cunningham – Company Friend. VIP guests for a ‘jolly nice’ and screen, performed stunning shows features 30 years on! Sun 28 August, 2.00pm with their usual brand a trio of West End singers evening out. Sun 14 August, £25.00 £10.00 Adult, £7.50 Child, of humour by Pitlochry and a 10 piece band that Scocha! You are invited to join the Together Aly and Sun 17 July, £20.00 £27.00 Family favourites, Linda will punch showbiz pizazz teams and discover just Phil have established Presented by the Rotary (2 adults, 2 children) Ormiston, James Nicol through the rooftops, exactly what is going on, themselves as the Club of Pitlochry Merlin the Mighty, Merlin and Andrew Nicol. playing hits like Alfie , because ‘we are darned if epitome of excellence in the Brave... Merlin the What The World Needs With a vast range of we know’! the world of traditional totally potty magician Fiddlers’ Rally Now, The Look Of Love, Scottish trad folk songs music. 2016 sees many Gently interactive, a real at the Royal Court Sun 11 September, £18.50 I Say A Little Prayer, blended with original milestones including dinner play, the action of King Arthur is on a & £16.50 (under 16s: Do You Know The Way compositions, this this, their 30th year of will unfold around a quest, to hunt down the £10.00) Presented by the To San Jose, Walk On promises to be a terrific working together, Aly three course meal in the naughty blaggard who Rotary Club of Pitlochry . By, Anyone Who Had A night out. Scocha! have turns 70 (hard to believe!) Heart, Always Something fabulous surroundings has pinched the right The Dunkeld & District toured extensively in and Phil celebrates 40 There To Remind Me, of Pitlochry Festival royal sword, Excalibur! Strathspey & Reel Europe, USA and Canada years as a professional Raindrops Keep Falling On Theatre. Knights and Ladies, your Society - with special and of course the UK. musician. For this My Head . . .
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In Search of the Blue Poppy: Bhutan Willow Weaving
Crevice Garden Douglas Pavilion Robert Fortune In Search of the Blue Poppy: Bhutan Willow Weaving This exhibition in the magnificent Douglas Pavilion 17 & 18 September features stunning photographic images captured by Explorers was recently awarded the prestigious status Price: £135* Garden Tours Julia Corden, modern day plant hunter, international of Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Partner Garden. In Time: 10.15am-4.30pm Bringing Explorers to life! botanical tour guide and Explorers Garden Manager. 2016, it will open its gates to visitors as one of 176 RHS Trevor Leat has been Partner Gardens around the UK for the first time. Our experienced tour Last Summer, Julia completed an expedition to the weaving willow for over guides provide insights remote region of Eastern Bhutan, part funded by The Described on Tripadvisor as “fascinating”, a “quiet 30 years and is one of the into the plants, trees, Scottish Rock Garden Club. Julia and her fellow plant haven”, an “interesting gem”, “beautiful”, “informative” UK’s foremost creators of wildlife, history, art and hunters were the first to visit this area since 1934, when and “well worth a visit”, this wonderful six acre willow sculptures. (www. architecture contained in Frank Ludlow and George Sherriff passed through on woodland garden has continued to blossom and trevorleat.co.uk) Explorers. Lasting around their way to collect over 500 plants from Tibet. mature since first opening to the public in 2003. 1.5 hours, these tours Join Trevor to learn This exhibition features beautiful images of blue Divided into areas representing different parts of the are fun, fascinating and how to create your own poppies (Meconopsis), local people and wild, exotic globe, Explorers offers you the chance to learn more informative: you’ll never willow structure, such mountains from this remote country in the Himalayas. about the great Scottish Plant Hunters’ adventures look at some of your as a garden deer, a ball and see the results of their efforts. garden plants in the same The exhibition runs from 1st April to 1st November. or a sheep! All skill levels way again! Entrance is free with Explorers entry. welcome. If you own Visitors can also enjoy unexpected art and secateurs, please bring installations, exotic plants, fantastic views, unique April-October: them with you. specialist features like rock and crevice gardens, Sundays, 11.30am archways and walkways, and numerous varieties of Additionally, *Price includes enough willow birds, as well as our resident red squirrels - guaranteed for a medium sized structure. June-September: More can be purchased from fun for all the family! Wednesdays, 11.30am Trevor on the day if needed.
Garden Admission: £4.00 Price: £5.00 includes This workshop will take place concessions available in our Port na Craig Studios, Garden entry which are adjacent to Fonab Family Ticket: £9.00 Castle Hotel and a short walk Concessions: £4.50 from the Theatre. RHS Members:
Free entry (to main cardholder) Julia Corden in Bhutan
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Active Arts Our programme of practical creative workshops for adults features several popular favourites. All workshops run from 10.30am to 4.30pm and are priced as follows: one day £50, two day £90 (unless otherwise stated) and include a soup and sandwich lunch, refreshments and basic materials.
Visual Arts Workshops Our experienced artists and tutors each bring their own style and unique approach to drawing and painting in this much-in-demand series of workshops. From Sketchbook Jim Murdoch is a David Brown to Painting professional Associate of the Society of all Artists. 19 March He has paintings in Fondant Cake In this inspiring one day Digital Photography – in a day! private collections all over workshop, you will learn Decorating for the world and exhibits David Brown MBE Further how to make preliminary is a professional Beginners his work regularly here at Developments 20 March sketches and drawings photographer and tutor, PFT. www.jimart.co.uk 31 July then begin the process with 22 years’ experience The ideal starting point Covering basic people for cake decorating. Try of developing them into Introduction to covering everything from acrylic paintings. photography, from your hand at creating Watercolours war zones to weddings. www.dwbprophot.co.uk location and composition, your own spring time Drawing for all 15 & 16 August using light and fill-in cake topper as you learn This series of Sunday 23 & 24 April A perfect introduction to flash, to lenses and the all the basic skills, hints workshops is the perfect Discover the fun and the world of watercolour basics of Photoshop, this and tips you will need way to develop your skills excitement of starting painting. Learn all the workshop will take your to create perfect results in digital photography. Kate Kirby to draw, in a workshop basic skills and techniques digital photography skills every time. which will explore you will need to get you a stage further. started in this rewarding Local artist and PFT tutor drawing in different Introduction and fluid medium. Kate Kirby is a graduate media and styles. to Digital Landscapes 16 October of Edinburgh College of Autumn Photography Art. The stunning scenery Scottish 29 May & 28 August After visiting a local Watercolours of Highland Perthshire Landscapes Are you struggling with scenic spot to capture Cake Decorating 22 & 23 October inspires her landscape 12 & 13 September your Compact, Bridge its beauty, you’ll return In this workshop for and abstract paintings. Inspired by the colour or DSLR camera? With indoors to examine, All workshops have limited all skill levels, you will capacity so please book early She regularly exhibits and drama of some of a mixture of theory discuss and process learn how to capture the to avoid disappointment. and enjoys encouraging Scotland’s most beautiful and practice, you will results. Please come When booking, please ensure autumn hues seen from others to develop their scenery, you will learn soon master its manual prepared for Scotland’s that you provide a contact our River Room window in number, the name of the artistic talents. the basic techniques of controls and functions. Autumn weather! watercolours. person(s) attending and an www.kate-kirby.com working in acrylics. email address.
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Dedication Plaques - In memory of a Play Dedications - a chance to directly • Enjoy £2.50 off per ticket on all plays tours and talks, our aim is to ensure you special person, a shared enjoyment of PFT, support your favourite production: plays and musicals receive the best help and advice. Call Box or in celebration of a special event, you can from £2000, Summer and Winter Musicals Office today on 01796 484626 to discuss choose to have a plaque on our new picture from £4000. • Save 20% off your second booking if your Group’s ticketing requirements. wall in the foyer. Each plaque is unique and you come back to see a second show comes in one of three sizes (Large: £1500, Legacies - if you are considering this year Feast at the Festival Medium: £1000 or Small: £500). You can also including PFT in your Will, we can send you • Enjoy 20% off the cost of your group’s Whether you’re here to enjoy a matinée select which PFT production you would like a leaflet to make this an easy task. your plaque to be connected with. train or coach travel or evening performance, we offer something to suit everyone, from quick • School Groups: £7.50 per pupil I would be happy to be sent PFT brochures and newsletters snacks to our very special pre-theatre (1 teacher per 10 pupils goes free) I would prefer not to receive PFT publications dinner, which is specific to each show. Group discounts apply to all performances except What’s more, we can cater for groups of Please return this form to Annie Hibberd, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry, Perthshire PH16 5DR Saturday nights, previews, and Band 1 seats. Unless otherwise stated, Group bookings require a 25% deposit up to 80. Choose from: one month from the date of booking with the balance due 21 days before the production. Soup & Sandwich ...... £6.95 Light Lunch...... £9.95
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Fun & Games for 5-9 Year Olds Arts and Crafts • Puzzles • Challenges • Treasure hunts • Messy • sessions! Price: £3.50 per session | Sessions run every day (Mon to Fri) from 10.30am to 12noon and take place in PFT’s Community Education studios next to Fonab Castle Hotel. Check our website for full details. Register your child(ren) today!
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our favourite hotel in itlochry for Theatre breaks The Pitlochry Dundarach Hotel is a splendid Victorian mansion set amid grounds, with a fi ne outlook over the stunning Perthshire hills and countryside. Family owned and managed with a focus on personal service and attention to detail. Built in the 1860's, the hotel continues to attract those in search of rest, relaxation and comfort. Delicious food and wine, free Wi Fi, private parking.
PITLOCHRYPerth Road, U DRAH Pitlochry, PH16 5DJTEL 01796 472862 • www.dundarach.co.uk • [email protected] Contemporary country house style in a quiet, elevated position in central Pitlochry. Stunning panoramic views of Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire. 12 en-suite bedrooms. Comfortable guest lounges with log fires. Daily changing menu in our AA two rosette restaurant. Pre-theatre dining and complimentary theatre transport available. Free wifi throughout.
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GREEN PARKHOTEL Awarded ‘Scottish Hotel of the Year ~ 2015’ by The Good Hotel Guide
The Green Park is one of Pitlochry’s best The Green Park is spacious and full of known landmarks, enjoying unrivalled light; the public rooms are well appointed views over Loch Faskally from its lochside and restful and the bedrooms are neat and position. The hotel is set in three acres of attractive. Sixteen of the bedrooms are at gardens at the western edge of the town; it ground floor level, and there are two lifts. is within strolling distance of the shops and Join us for Pre-theatre dinner. is a pleasant walk from the Festival Theatre. Theatre Ticket Offer Complement your visit to the theatre with a stay at The Green Park. Guests staying four days or more (on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis during the Hotel's high season) will each be entitled to a complimentary theatre ticket for a show of their own choice. This complimentary ticket can be for any section of the auditorium.
Clunie Bridge Road, Pitlochry PH16 5JY Tel: 01796 473248 Fax: 01796 473520 [email protected] www.thegreenpark.co.uk