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horribly truthful, cringe-inducing, howl- Special Offers: out-loud moments for which its author Welcome to this exclusive guide Turn to page 17 to view exclusive, time- is renowned. limited ticket offers that provide a number to the 2017 Summer Season at The work of two great Scottish of ways to see more for less! playwrights completes our Summer-long Scotland’s favourite theatre. festival of theatre: J.M. Barrie’s Mary Rose, Thank You: one of the biggest successes of his career, We must offer a huge vote of thanks to popular than this year’s Carousel is a poignant, chilling supernatural story everyone who voted for PFT in the 2016 – so don’t delay, book today! about innocence and the loss of youth, set UK Theatre Awards. We were delighted to either side of the First World War, whilst Alan Bennett’s People opened to David Greig’s Europe is a dark, complex resounding critical acclaim at London’s tale of shifting borders, refugees and National Theatre in 2012. This perfectly nationhood, which follows in the footsteps pitched comedy about the heritage of PFT’s hugely successful production of industry showcases Bennett at the peak the same playwright’s Pyrenees in 2015. of his powers, so if you enjoyed The Lady In The Van or Habeas Corpus, then this Great plays, such as these, are always Scottish première is for you. Warning: topical, affecting, thought-provoking and aching sides might be a problem . . . entertaining, so I hope that you will find John Durnin in rehearsal much here to interest and excite you! The Ruling Class by Olivier Award-winning Our new Season of six outstanding shows playwright Peter Barnes is another More Than Just Plays: be crowned Scotland’s Most Welcoming in repertoire goes on sale to the general highlight: a funny, frenetic, subversive and, For information about other events and Theatre – for the second year running! It’s a public in the New Year, so make the most most importantly, wickedly entertaining activities during the Summer Season – remarkable achievement and a testimony of this sneak preview and purchase your satire about an aristocratic family including concerts, Active Arts workshops, to the staff who work so hard to ensure tickets now, securing your preferred confronting the possibility that one of our ever popular programme of tours and you have a wonderful experience whenever seats, on your preferred dates, at very their own is a paranoid schizophrenic with talks, and the Explorers Garden (a newly you visit PFT. special rates! a Messiah complex. What more could accredited RHS Partner Garden) – the full We look forward to welcoming you back to you ask? Summer Season brochure will be available Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Well, the Theatre in the Hills very soon! Did You Evah! are just two of the fabulous Well, how about three misfit couples, in February 2017. Cole Porter numbers in our 2017 flagship in three kitchens, over three successive John Durnin musical, the exuberant High Society. With Christmases? Alan Ayckbourn’s 1970s ARTISTIC DIRECTOR all the trademark PFT production values classic, Absurd Person Singular, is an that audiences have come to expect, we irresistible masterpiece that combines Scrooge - The Musical! anticipate that this will be even more suburban sit-com with a host of those Don't forget opens 2 December see page 33 for dates and details.
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01796 484626 l PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01 STAY 6 DAYS, SEE 6 PLAYS Featuring... Who WantS To Be A Millionaire? High Society True Love Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter • Book by Arthur Kopit Additional Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead • Based on the play The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry Well, Did you Evah! Also based on the Turner Entertainment Co. motion picture High Society You’re SenSational “Have you heard, it’s in the stars, next July we collide with Mars. Well, did you evah! What a swell party this is . . .”
For the socialites of New England, it will be drops in unannounced. Their marriage may the Wedding of the Year: seven hundred have ended tempestuously, but Dexter is Daily Mail guests, magnums of Veuve Clicquot and still dangerously attractive . . . the beautiful, sophisticated Tracy Lord as Add an estranged father, a confused the bride-to-be. And the groom? mother, a meddling younger sister, an According to the invitations, that honour amorous uncle, a lovesick photographer, goes to self-made man, George Kittredge. a not-so-hushed-up family scandal, mix High And even if George is, well, not quite well - and you have the makings of a very from the top drawer - and a little dull - potent cocktail indeed . . ! his upright character perfectly matches After our smash-hit production of Kiss Tracy’s reputation as a paragon of virtue. Me, Kate in 2010, PFT returns to the SocietY But then on the eve of the nuptials, Mike genius of Cole Porter with a large cast, a Connor, a down-at-heel reporter from one fabulous swing band and some great songs Music & LyricS by Cole Porter of New York’s scandal sheets, turns up to (including True Love, Let’s Misbehave, Book by Arthur Kopit | Additional Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead cover the wedding. And this rugged ‘man Well, Did You Evah! and Who Wants To Be Based on the play The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry Also based on the Turner Entertainment Co. motion picture High Society of the people’ is immediately smitten with A Millionaire?) for the Scottish première of the divine Miss Lord . . . this witty, sparkling, high energy musical!
Even worse, Tracy’s first husband, the charming playboy, C. K. Dexter Haven, also
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Mary Rose by J.M. Barrie
“I have sometimes thought that our girl is curiously young for her age . . . you know how just a touch of frost may stop the growth of a plant and yet leave it blooming . . .”
When the young Mary Rose climbs an Rose has appeared unaffected by this apple tree and announces her plans to extraordinary incident – except, perhaps, marry, the news is greeted by her doting for certain moments when her mind has parents first with unbridled joy - then, seemed to drift . . . to somewhere else. strangely, with furrowed brows . . . Four years after her marriage, Mary For Mr and Mrs Morland now feel duty- Rose returns to the same island with bound to tell Simon, their jovial future her husband and their young son. And son-in-law, about a mysterious incident something unthinkable happens. Again . . . in their daughter’s past about which they J.M. Barrie’s eerie supernatural drama have never spoken . . . not even to Mary of youth, love and loss, written in the Rose herself. aftermath of the Great War, was first When she was a young girl, Mary Rose and staged in 1920 – and a young Alfred her parents holidayed on a tiny island in Hitchcock was one of the many who fell the Outer Hebrides. And, one day, Mary under its spell. So if you enjoyed our recent Rose disappeared. Without trace. productions of The Admirable Crichton and Dear Brutus, then this mysterious, deeply Until three weeks later, that is, when she moving play, which featured in PFT’s first suddenly reappeared, wholly unaware that ever Season in 1951, is not to be missed! any time had passed. Since then, Mary
“Genuinely spine-tingling” The Herald
“Deft, thoughtful and heartfelt . . . a real heart-lurching chiller.” The Scotsman
“Barrie revival is a class act . . . the kind of large scale production at which director Richard Baron excels” The Times on PFT’s production of The Admirable Crichton, 2014
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People by Alan Bennett
“I don't like it or dislike it. It's home. Plus, there are no people.”
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With a bath on the billiard table and a Whilst pondering which way to jump, garden resembling a jungle, aristocrat Dorothy unexpectedly encounters a (and former model) Dorothy Stacpoole familiar face from her modelling days. faces a desperate situation. The decaying Theodore, now a producer of “adult” films, family pile is close to ruin. And with the is in search of the perfect period setting coffers all but empty, Dorothy must now - and four poster bed - for his latest porn choose between auctioning off the historic epic. And having a film crew about the contents - or handing everything over to place might distract Dorothy from the the National Trust. impossible decision she faces . . .
Archdeacon June, her sister, is all for the Bennett’s hilariously entertaining and Trust. But Dorothy loathes the idea of strangely moving play about heritage opening her home to the public: people and home opened at the National spoil things, don’t they, trampling over Theatre in London in 2012. Sharing the history, gawking at family memories? same theatrical DNA as PFT’s acclaimed The thought of flogging off the art and production of The Lady In The Van, the the heirlooms is equally unbearable. And Scottish première of People will be eagerly there’s a third option, too: a shady, über- awaited by Bennett fans everywhere! rich consortium is interested in buying the Please note that this play contains occasional house and relocating it from Yorkshire to strong language, partial nudity and some sexual somewhere altogether more desirable. content. Like Dorset.
“Wonderfully funny” The Times “Outrageously funny “Provocative fun . . . and provocative” entertaining, funny The Independent “Scathingly funny” and touching” The Sunday Times The Daily Telegraph
Sponsored by Mrs Katharine Liston in loving memory of Iain Liston
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Absurd Person Singular absurd by Alan Ayckbourn “I don’t know what it is about Christmas but – I just find myself remembering all the dreadful things – the dreadful things I’ve said – the dreadful things I’ve done . . .”
Three ill-matched couples. Three different believes there’s only one way out - but kitchens. Three horrendous Christmases . . . why can’t any of the merry visitors see person what she’s really trying to do? Early 1970s suburbia: the ambitious Sydney Hopcroft is hoping to secure A further year passes and it’s Christmas backing for his new business from two chez Ronald and his caustic, hard-drinking guests he’s invited to his festive gathering: wife, Marion. Ronald’s bank is in trouble, architect Geoffrey Jackson and old-school so there’s not much Christmas cheer. And singular banker Ronald Brewster-Wright. But the Marion’s locked herself in the bedroom pressure of the situation proves a little too with the booze. And Geoffrey’s career has much for Sydney’s put-upon wife, Jane, taken a nosedive. So when the Hopcrofts as she attempts to keep the party sailing drop in, Sydney suddenly finds himself in a by Alan Ayckbourn along upon a sea of gin and shiny formica position to dominate proceedings . . . worktops . . . An hilarious, wickedly observant comic One year later, and it’s the turn of serial masterpiece about ladder-climbing (social philanderer Geoffrey and his clinically and otherwise) and power, Absurd Person depressed wife, Eva, to play host. Before Singular is one of the greatest plays of the their guests arrive, Geoffrey decides the last fifty years, by one of Britain’s - and time is right to tell Eva that their marriage PFT’s - most popular playwrights. is over. Already befuddled with pills, Eva
“Dramatic mastery at work” The Guardian “Ayckbourn at the top of his game . . . it feels almost indecent to laugh but somehow you just can’t stop yourself” The Telegraph
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The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes
CLAIRE: “How do you know you’re . . . God?” EARL OF GURNEY: “Simple. When I pray to Him I find I’m talking to myself.”
The aristocracy: backbone of Britain, completely of his delusion – or quietly pillar of Church and State, the living declared insane and committed to an embodiment of tradition. And purveyors of asylum. certain eccentricities. Some stranger than But Herder’s attempts to shock Jack into others . . . normality are far from orthodox . . . When the 13th Earl of Gurney dies in and whilst the treatment may appear somewhat embarrassing circumstances, outwardly successful, deep within Jack’s the title is inherited by his son, Jack – to psyche, something dark and deadly is the horror of the rest of the family. Why? released . . . Well, Jack’s particular eccentricity is a little One of the landmark plays of the 1960s, more extreme than most: he’s a paranoid Peter Barnes’s classic cult comedy, schizophrenic who thinks he’s the Father, influenced by everything from music hall Son and Holy Ghost . . . to Ealing comedy, is a theatrical tour de Returning home from a clinic to assume force, combining feverish energy, ferocious the title - and to preach an alarmingly humour, razor-sharp satire and genuine subversive brand of peace, love and horror. The 1972 film earned Peter O’Toole understanding - Jack is spectacularly an Oscar nomination, whilst James McAvoy unsuited to life in elite society. Appalled, starred in the acclaimed 2015 London the scheming Gurneys close ranks and revival. Do not miss this! deliver an ultimatum to Jack’s psychiatrist, Please note that this play contains occasional Dr. Herder: Jack must either be cured strong language and some adult content
“Barnes’s play has an “fascinatingly, “riotously funny-peculiar intoxicating energy . . . brilliantly weird” assault on the English chillingly relevant” TimeOut upper class” The Guardian The Telegraph “. . . a scorching and savage tragedy, yet its jokes are innumerable . . . uproariously funny . . .” Sunday Times 01796 484626 l PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 11 STAY 6 DAYS, SEE 6 PLAYS
Europe by David Greig
“We’re not in some savage country on the other side of the world. Look around you, look at the architecture. Listen to the sounds from the street. You can smell the forest. We’re a long way from home but we’re still in Europe.”
On the platform of a provincial railway Meanwhile, the shadowy Morocco, an station, in a border town somewhere in ‘entrepreneur’, makes a living slipping Europe, two refugees arrive: Sava and his across the invisible border, buying and daughter, Katia. They’ve been travelling selling . . . anything. That’s where the forever. All they want to do is rest and find profit is now. a place to begin again. But it won’t be here. Tensions rise, threaten to explode. Because the town is dying. The station And at night, out in the forest, the wolves itself is about to shut: trains from gather . . . Vienna, Warsaw and Budapest hurtle So who will live and who will die? Who will along the tracks, but none will stop. Both find love when it is least expected? And stationmaster Fret and Adele, the porter, who will manage to escape . . ? yearn to leave. But they, like the refugees, must just watch the trains flash by . . . This startlingly contemporary work by Scotland’s greatest living playwright is a The town’s lightbulb factory has closed. fierce and compassionate drama about Switched off. Young locals, like Horse, Billy shifting borders, changing identities and and Berlin, are unemployed. Their days globalisation. are spent in bars, complaining, sharing angry fantasies, or prowling the streets, Please note that this play contains frequent increasingly resentful of the refugees in strong language their midst.
“A memorable storm of political The Scotsman, The Herald and The Times on PFT’s drama, comment and warning, 2015 production of Pyrenees by David Greig. not to be ignored.” The Scotsman “Europe is a story of our times . . . its pungent mix of poetry and Sponsored by realism is instantly recognisable. . . ” The Kuenssberg Charitable Foundation The Guardian
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Matinée (2pm) Evening (8pm) Buy tickets for any 3 Monday to Friday shows and WEDNESDAY 5 People High Society get £3.25 off per ticket – and save almost £10.00! THURSDAY 6 Mary Rose FRIDAY 7 People Matinée (2pm) Evening (8pm) May SATURDAY 8 Absurd Person Singular High Society FRIDAY 26 High Society MONDAY 10 Mary Rose SATURDAY 27 High Society High Society TUESDAY 11 High Society
WEDNESDAY 12 High Society Absurd Person Singular June THURSDAY 13 People THURSDAY 1 Mary Rose Mary Rose FRIDAY 14 High Society FRIDAY 2 High Society SATURDAY 15 Mary Rose Absurd Person Singular SATURDAY 3 High Society Mary Rose THURSDAY 20 The Ruling Class The Ruling Class THURSDAY 8 People People FRIDAY 21 Absurd Person Singular FRIDAY 9 Mary Rose SATURDAY 22 High Society People SATURDAY 10 High Society People MONDAY 24 Mary Rose THURSDAY 15 Absurd Person Singular Absurd Person Singular TUESDAY 25 The Ruling Class FRIDAY 16 People WEDNESDAY 26 The Ruling Class High Society SATURDAY 17 Mary Rose High Society THURSDAY 27 Absurd Person Singular MONDAY 19 Absurd Person Singular FRIDAY 28 People TUESDAY 20 High Society SATURDAY 29 Mary Rose High Society WEDNESDAY 21 Mary Rose People MONDAY 31 The Ruling Class THURSDAY 22 Absurd Person Singular FRIDAY 23 High Society Buy tickets for any 5 shows and get £5.00 off per ticket – save £25.00! SATURDAY 24 People Mary Rose MONDAY 26 High Society August TUESDAY 27 Absurd Person Singular TUESDAY 1 High Society WEDNESDAY 28 Absurd Person Singular People WEDNESDAY 2 High Society People THURSDAY 29 Mary Rose THURSDAY 3 Mary Rose FRIDAY 30 Absurd Person Singular FRIDAY 4 Absurd Person Singular SATURDAY 5 The Ruling Class People Buy tickets for any 4 shows and get £4.00 off per ticket – save £16.00! MONDAY 7 High Society TUESDAY 8 People July WEDNESDAY 9 People Absurd Person Singular SATURDAY 1 High Society People THURSDAY 10 The Ruling Class MONDAY 3 Absurd Person Singular FRIDAY 11 Mary Rose TUESDAY 4 People SATURDAY 12 High Society Absurd Person Singular 20 PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com l 01796 484626 01796 484626 l PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 21 Preview Performances STAY 6 DAYS, SEE 6 PLAYS Supporters’ Events Preview Performances STAY 6 DAYS, SEE 6 PLAYS Supporters’ Events
Matinée (2pm) Evening (8pm) MONDAY 14 People Saver Seats - only £15.00! Book a minimum of 24 hours in advance and get the best seats available on the night (only TUESDAY 15 Absurd Person Singular 50 seats available per show, seats are allocated on the morning of the performance). WEDNESDAY 16 Absurd Person Singular High Society Saver Seat Tickets go on sale 1st March 2017 THURSDAY 17 Mary Rose
FRIDAY 18 The Ruling Class Matinée (2pm) Evening (8pm) SATURDAY 19 People High Society WEDNESDAY 20 High Society Mary Rose
THURSDAY 24 Europe Europe THURSDAY 21 Europe The Ruling Class FRIDAY 25 Absurd Person Singular FRIDAY 22 People SATURDAY 26 High Society Mary Rose SATURDAY 23 Absurd Person Singular Europe MONDAY 28 The Ruling Class MONDAY 25 Mary Rose TUESDAY 29 Europe TUESDAY 26 The Ruling Class WEDNESDAY 30 Europe People WEDNESDAY 27 The Ruling Class High Society THURSDAY 31 High Society Absurd Person Singular THURSDAY 28 High Society People FRIDAY 29 Europe Buy a ticket to see all 6 shows and get one show half price SATURDAY 30 Mary Rose Absurd Person Singular plus a free 3 course dinner – save up to £38.00! October September MONDAY 2 High Society FRIDAY 1 Mary Rose TUESDAY 3 People SATURDAY 2 The Ruling Class High Society WEDNESDAY 4 People The Ruling Class MONDAY 4 People THURSDAY 5 Mary Rose Europe TUESDAY 5 Absurd Person Singular FRIDAY 6 Absurd Person Singular WEDNESDAY 6 Absurd Person Singular Europe SATURDAY 7 High Society Mary Rose THURSDAY 7 Europe Mary Rose MONDAY 9 The Ruling Class FRIDAY 8 High Society TUESDAY 10 High Society SATURDAY 9 People The Ruling Class WEDNESDAY 11 High Society Mary Rose MONDAY 11 Europe THURSDAY 12 Absurd Person Singular People TUESDAY 12 Mary Rose FRIDAY 13 Europe WEDNESDAY 13 Mary Rose Absurd Person Singular SATURDAY 14 The Ruling Class High Society THURSDAY 14 People High Society FRIDAY 15 The Ruling Class Supporters’ Receptions On these special evenings, Supporters can join us for an SATURDAY 16 Europe People exclusive dinner, Artistic Director’s talk and the chance to meet MONDAY 18 Absurd Person Singular the cast and crew after the show, for only £60 per person. TUESDAY 19 High Society
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great food – all served with our unique mix of Scotland and the Mediterranean! Call us on 01796 473840 Knockendarroch asked for same pos as last brochure (top right) and Derrbeg also asked for top right.
PITLOCHRY DUNDARACH HOTEL is celebrating 29 successful years of theatre breaks! Special Offer 2 nights dinner, bed and breakfast, Contemporary country house style in a quiet, elevated position in central Pitlochry. Stunning plus a ticket to Pitlochry Festival Theatre 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. from £199pp Pre-theatre dining and complimentary theatre transport available. Free wifi throughout.
This year we are delighted to o er you 2 nights dinner, bed and 2015 TRAVELLERS’ full Scottish breakfast along with a ticket to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre 01796 473 473 CHOICE for £199 per person. Add-on tickets and nights available. knockendarroch.co.uk [email protected] Small Hotel (Excludes Saturday, printed terms apply) tripadvisor To book please contact us by phone, email or post.
“Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a fantastic choice for any group on a tour of Scotland” orthlands CoachTours UK, Feb 2015 Bed & Breakfast Pitlochry
Your favourite hotel in Pitlochry 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 Lettoch Road Pitlochry and managed with a focus on personal service and attention to detail. Built in the Perthshire PH16 5AZ 1860's, the hotel continues to attract those in search of rest, relaxation and comfort. PITLOCHRY FESTIVAL THEATRE Tel: 01796 474131 Delicious food and wine, free Wi Fi, private parking. has designed special offers just for [email protected] Groups inculding 20% off transport. PITLOCHRY DUNDARACH HOTEL • Perth Road, Pitlochry, PH16 5DJ Turn to page 18 for full details. www.northlandsbandb.com 01796 472862 • www.dundarach.co.uk • [email protected] Contemporary Bed and Breakfast Centrally Located in Pitlochry
T: 01796 472 070 W: www.derrybeg.co.uk 18 Lower Oakfield | Pitlochry | PH16 5DS PFT Supporters How To Support PFT Fabulous stage sets, sumptuous costumes, real hair wigs, the most talented Choose how you would like to contribute to PFT (with a Regular Gift, a Single Gift directors, designers and crew, the best acting (and singing) talent: these all or by becoming a Friend of PFT) and fill in the Gift Aid overleaf. help to make your theatre experience at PFT stand out, head and shoulders, 1 Donate a Regular Gift - I would like to donate: above those offered by many other UK theatres. £25 £75 £150 £250 £500 | other amount: ...... Carousel, 2016 PFT Supporters’ Card per month quarter year Festival Circle donors (£50 or more p.a.) Starting on . . . . . /. . . . . /. . . . . (write date allowing 20 days lead time) for a period of. . . . year(s) and Friends can enjoy the benefits of a PFT Supporters Card. Pay To: Bank Of Scotland • Sort Code: 80-09-41 • Account No: 00731282 Account Name: Pitlochry Festival Theatre • Ref: ...... Each cardholder can enjoy: To (Name of your bank): • Exclusive events and offers Name of Bank: ...... • Discounts on theatre tickets The Herald The Stage Name of Bank Account: ...... • 10% off gifts in the theatre shop or Address of Bank: ...... To enable us to keep putting the highest Just The Ticket! Sort Code: - - Account Number: quality musical and drama productions • 10% off restaurant and café bar on the PFT stage, year-round, we need purchases Signature: ...... Date: . . . . . /. . . . . /. . . . . to raise £300,000 annually from you, our generous supporters! By giving each year, PFT Supporters’ Events Donate a Single Gift - I would like to donate: you will become more closely involved in There are regular, exclusive evening events £100 £200 £300 £400 £500 | other amount: ...... what we do and know that because of your just for our Supporters, with dinner, a talk contribution, The Theatre in the Hills will from our Artistic Director, a ticket for the I enclose a cheque made payable to Pitlochry Festival Theatre continue to flourish. show and the chance to meet the cast and I enclose a Charities Aid Foundation Voucher You can: crew after curtain down. See the 2017 Diary • Be a Friend at £40 per year per individual for these special dates. Please charge my: Visa Mastercard Maestro Visa Debit • Donate to the Festival Circle each year Tickets: £60 per person Card Number: Security Code: from £50 Next Event: – Fri 9th December Scrooge! Start Date: . . . . /. . . . /. . . . Expiry Date: . . . . /. . . . /. . . . Issue Number (Maestro Only): ...... • Join The John Stewart Society from £1,500 per year Hard Times, 2016 Signature: ...... Date: . . . . . /. . . . . /. . . . . Don’t forget to Gift Aid it! Join the Friends of PFT - I would like to become a Friend of PFT The John Stewart Society £40 (One person, annual) £80 (Two people, annual)
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I would like to be contacted about: December 2016 Dedication Plaques - In memory of a Play Dedications - a chance to directly special person, a shared enjoyment of PFT, support your favourite production: or in celebration of a special event, you can plays from £2000, Summer and Winter choose to have a plaque on our new picture Musicals from £4000. wall in the foyer. Each plaque is unique and comes in one of three sizes (Large: £1500, Legacies - if you are considering including Medium: £1000 or Small: £500). You can also PFT in your Will, we can send you a leaflet to select which PFT production you would like make this an easy task. your plaque to be connected with. I would be happy to be sent PFT brochures and newsletters
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Book your tickets today The Herald The Stage 01796 484626 PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 32 [email protected] l 01796 484638 Thark, 2016 Pitlochry’s family run lochside location
THE
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