PITLOCHRY FESTIVAL THEATRE SEASON GUIDE Hello! Firstly, thank you for a great 2019 OF TAY, an ambitious three year Season. It was a fantastic first Project where we will create, grow summer for me personally. I was and nurture over 50 pieces of new thrilled that we welcomed thousands art inspired by the River Tay. We will more visitors than we’d expected present this work inside our building, and we continued the tradition of outside in our landscape and online to producing beautiful, passionate, reach friends further afield. energetic and entertaining The Tay has become our inspiration productions. Please read about what as the Theatre lives on the riverbank we have to offer for 2020 in the pages of the glorious Tummel, a tributary of that follow. We can’t wait to make the the Tay. We cannot wait to connect work for you. with even more people living up and We continue our mission to be down Tayside over the next three a Theatre for A Lifetime where years. productions and participation go hand SHADES OF TAY will celebrate in hand as one nationally regarded ’s landscape and important artistic programme: Two halves of heritage. We hope you’ll join us on one art. After the success of our new this artistic voyage up and down participation programme, we will grow Scotland’s most exhilarating River our accessible performances and our Highway and we look forward to new provision to ensure that everyone welcoming you to the Theatre to has access to our artistic programme. experience the plays! Please read on to find out about how to get involved. Elizabeth Newman Artistic Director As well as our wonderful season of plays, this autumn we launch SHADES

Scotland’s Most Welcoming “Theatre is one of the best places for escaping Theatre, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 reality. Playing in imaginary worlds for a short Festival Theatre is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland Number SC029243 space of time is fun. I think it’s really valuable.” at the below address. Scottish Charity Number SC013055

Elsie Murray, Wardrobe Department Work Placement Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port-na-craig, Pitlochry, PH16 5DR Administration: 01796 484600 | Box Office: 01796 484626 Email: [email protected] | Website: www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com

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Presented by Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre .

“I love you darling… keep It’s not long until Mother arrives to singing, Paul. Keep singing.” cast her eye over their expensive apartment. Corie decides to play matchmaker and during dinner with Springtime in New York City. Fresh their eccentric neighbour-in-the-attic, from a blissful, six night honeymoon Velasco, things begin to unravel. stay at the Plaza, newlyweds Paul and Corie move into their top floor If only Corie could be more pragmatic. Manhattan apartment. Paul’s a See things as Paul does. If only stick- straight laced, ambitious attorney in-the-mud Paul could be a little more focussed on climbing the corporate spontaneous. Running “barefoot in ladder; Corie’s a passionate, free spirit, the park” would be a start… always looking on the bright side of life. Their small flat is her latest find Author of The Odd Couple, Pulitzer and she’s determined to create a prize winning playwright Neil Simon romantic vibe despite bare walls, is one of America’s greatest writers. bad plumbing, eccentric neighbours Barefoot In The Park is one of his and a hole in their skylight. great works.

TEN BY WRIT MON NEIL SI DIRECTED BYWMAN ETH NE Post Show Talk: BSL Interpreted Performance: ELIZAB Wed 18 March, after the matinée Wed 25 March, 7.00pm Supporters’ Event: Captioned Performance: Fri 20 March, 5.00pm Fri 27 March, 7.00pm Relaxed Performance: Sat 21 March, 2.00pm

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Travelling around America, life is a Can Rose remould Louise into a replica series of small-town vaudeville gigs of June? Or will Louise discover her for the daughters of pushy, show- own path to stardom and leave her business obsessed mother, Rose. Mother, all alone?

And while daughter June revels in the This gloriously entertaining musical spotlight, her sister Louise always fable, based loosely on the memoirs plays (reluctantly) the supporting of Gypsy Rose Lee was first seen role. Despite hardships and set-backs, on Broadway in 1959. Most recently Mama Rose has high hopes and big revived in the West End, starring dreams for her rising ‘stars’. Imelda Staunton, Gypsy is one of the greatest American musicals. When June gets a shot at the big time however, it means the end of A hit-filled, good time, summer Let Me Entertain You the act. Mama turns it down! Tired showbiz extravaganza, not to be of endlessly touring, sick of her missed! Some People excessively ambitious Mother and a little love-struck, June elopes. You’ll Never Get Away From Me

If Momma Was Married Post Show Talk: Relaxed Performance: Thur 28 May, after the matinée Thur 17 September, 2.00pm All I Need Is the Girl Supporters’ Event: Everything’s Coming up Roses Fri 7 August, 6.00pm A MUSICAL FABLE You Gotta Get a Gimmick Book by Arthur Laurents Small World Music by Jule Styne • Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee Together, Wherever We Go Original production by David Merrick & Leland Hayward Entire production originally directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins

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NOel coward’s Private Lives

“I think very few people are secluded Parisian flat, reality begins to bite. The pair begin to bicker. And completely normal really, fight. It’s a repeat performance of deep down in their private their first, disastrous marriage.

lives.” They can’t live with each other. French Riviera, 1930. Quintessentially They can’t live without each other. stylish divorcées, Elyot and Amanda Only when Amanda and Elyot are are honeymooning with their new discovered by their jilted spouses, and much younger spouses. When do the foursome finally figure out they find themselves inexplicably on who is best suited to whom. adjacent Hotel balconies, they quickly realise the awful yet beautiful truth. Fast-paced, witty, and passionate, They both still love each other and Noel Coward’s comedy is a delightful, regret their divorce. romantic comedy of manners. Packed with pace and Coward’s signature, Facing up to their true feelings, the stinging repartee, Private Lives is his starry-eyed pair hatch a plan to greatest - Tony and Olivier award- escape their honeymoon hotel and winning - success. mismatched partners. However, having relocated to Amanda’s

Post Show Talk: Captioned Performance: Thur 25 June, after the matinée Fri 25 September, 8.00pm

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“You’ll laugh but when I look at dentistry and bright, mirror-ball lights, there is real-life strain, suffering and all this, I think I’ve woken up in sacrifice. So, who will get through to a fish tank. A gigantic tropical the next round? And what will it cost fish tank.” them?

Three dance partnerships are Join us as we dance our way through striving for the National Amateur a dazzling, sequin-studded, feather- Championships title in Blackpool. flurry of waltzes, tangos, quicksteps, Nancy has a new partner Luka, who jives, paso dobles… has come all the way from Russia, Amanda Whittington has numerous bought and paid for by her dad. Then writing credits for BBC Radio Four there’s married couple Justin and including The Archers. Her plays have Jodie who are living like professional been performed throughout the UK dancers who aren’t getting paid. They and include Ladies Day and Be My make it via the hard shoulder of the Baby. M6. Meantime reigning champions Samantha and Lee are out to defend Heart-warmingly funny, dramatic their glittering crown. Although Sam’s and packed with wonderful American habit could get in the way of victory. and Latin dancing, Kiss Me Quickstep is a must for audiences who want to What’s certain is that the winners will explore the world of dancing to win have the world of ballroom at their and of course, fans of Strictly Come impeccably polished, foxtrotting feet. Dancing. But beneath the bottled tan, blinding

Post Show Talk: Relaxed Performance: Wed 1 July, after the matinée Wed 19 August, 2.00pm Supporters’ Event: Fri 10 July, 6.00pm

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A World Première

Adventures with the Painted People Lucius is captured by the Picts. Eithne, is not so much a Road movie as a River an extraordinary Pictish woman, risks movie for the stage. her life to save him, however she needs something in return… It’s a story about stones and sticks. David Greig is Scotland’s foremost About books and songs. playwright. His award-winning work About bath-houses and bogs. has been performed and produced all over the world. Recent acclaimed About temples and forests. adaptations include Solaris, Local About Eithne and Lucius. Hero and Touching the Void. Original A Pict and a Roman. plays include The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Midsummer, Outlying Set somewhere in the vicinity of Islands and Pyrenees. Pitlochry in the year 85 AD during the reign of the Emperor Domitian then A Shades of Tay commission. Julius Agricola, the longest serving and most powerful governor of Roman Britain.

Post Show Talk: Captioned Performance: Wed 5 August, after the matinée Fri 11 September, 8.00pm

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“I’ve got the guts to die. What I Afterall, the future of Maggie’s marriage is at stake. And with the want to know is, have you got entire family in crisis, she will have the guts to live?” to be as clever as a cat to land on her feet. But which version of the truth is A scorching summer’s night in real? And which one will win out? Mississippi. On a cotton plantation, a In this Pulitzer prize-winning drama, Southern family gathers to celebrate Tennessee Williams explores Big Daddy’s birthday. In the steamy, universal themes of greed, desire oppressive heat, lies and deceits and death. dance between Maggie and her has-been hero husband Brick. Made unforgettable in the Oscar- nominated film starring Elizabeth A shattering revelation. And a play Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl to take control of the family fortune. Ives, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is a When secrets and searing tensions heart-rending, poetic and powerful combine, family and feelings must twentieth century masterpiece. be faced with unwavering honesty.

BSL Interpreted Performance: Post Show Talk: Mon 10 August, 8.00pm Thur 3 September, after the matinée

Supported by Katharine Liston in loving memory of Iain Liston

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A World Première

“It is not what we think or feel their mother in a tiny Devonshire cottage. With their prospects for that makes us who we are. It is marriage nearly ruined, the sisters what we do. Or fail to do...” are nevertheless courted by three, dynamic men. The death of their father throws sisters Elinor and Marianne’s privileged However, what devastating and world into chaos. With no entitlement dark secrets do these men: John to his estate, they rely on their brother Willoughby, Edward Ferrars and John to provide. However John’s Colonel Brandon, hold in their hearts? avaricious wife, Fanny, can’t disguise And what part might fate play in her intolerance of these women in her Marianne and Elinor’s search for true home. love?

And to make matters worse, Edward, Published anonymously in 1811, Jane her eminently eligible brother, begins Austen’s first novel explored the to form an attachment to elder sister, tensions of her times. Adapted by Elinor. award-winning playwright Frances Poet (Fibres, Adam, Gut), expect biting Thrust into poverty by their brother’s wit, romance and heart-breaking scheming and manipulative wife, tenderness. the sisters are reduced to living with

Post Show Talk: BSL Interpreted Performance: , Wed 2 September, after the matinée Thur 1 October, 8.00pm by jane austen adapted by frances poet 14 01796 484626 | PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 15 Take your seat... SEASON PLAYS STAGE Saturday Matinées & Mon-Thur Preview TICKETS PITLOCHRY Evening Fri Evening Evening Join us for our Summer Season of six Buy tickets now and secure the seats 1 £33 £30 £27 £25 shows and save. you want at the best prices. 2 £30 £28 £25 £23 Buy 5 shows. 3 £27 £25 £23 £21 Gold: £180 FIVE Save £5 per ticket. 4 £23 £20 £16 £14 Buy tickets to all 6 shows in Price Band 1, Buy 4 shows. SS £16 £16 £16 n/a enjoy a free 3 course dinner and pay only Save £4 per ticket. WHEELCHAIRS £30 per ticket. FOUR Buy 3 shows. GYPSY Save £3 per ticket. Saturday Matinées & Mon-Thur Preview THREE Evening Fri Evening Evening Silver: £165 Buy tickets to all 6 shows in Price Band 2, Book your tickets by visiting or phoning 1 £39 £37 £34 £30 enjoy a free 2 course dinner and pay only Box Office on 01796 484626. £36 £34 £31 £28 2 £27.50 per ticket. 3 £32 £30 £28 £24 4 £26 £22 £22 £18 SS £21 £21 £21 n/a Bronze: £150 SAVER SEATS Buy tickets to all 6 shows in Price Band 3, Plays: £16, Gypsy: £21 enjoy a free 2 course dinner and pay only Book at least 24 hours in advance and get £25 per ticket. HOW TO BOOK: CONCESSIONS: the best seats available on the morning of the show. On sale 1 April 2020. Call: 01796 484626. (Available in Price Bands 2 & 3 unless Top Up Ticket: Lines open from 9.00am otherwise indicated) Add Barefoot in the Park to your Online: PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com • Senior Citizens (65+): Summer Season Ticket and pay only Email: BoxOffice@ Save £1.75 per ticket on all matinées £21.00. Groups (8+) Save £7 per ticket and get 20% off your PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com • Friends: Save £5 per ticket, Season tickets, offers and prices expire transport costs if you book and pay Post: Send cheques, payable to: join today for only £40 24 January, 2020. for your Group trip before 1 March. Turn Pitlochry Festival Theatre • Registered Disabled: £19.50 per ticket All season tickets and offers apply to to page 19 to discover FULL details of Port na Craig, Pitlochry, PH16 5DR. • Unemployed/Young Persons plays and musicals in Price Bands 2&3 benefits, savings and food options for Opening Hours: Box Office is open (Under 26 YRS): £10 unless otherwise indicated. Please Groups. every day from 10.00am. • Family Tickets: £63 note – your free dinner can be used any Please note: Event and ticketing information is Refunds and Exchanges: Tickets can be (2 adults and 2 U18s) evening, except when Gypsy is on. correct at time of going to print. Changes in the refunded only in the event of a show cancellation programme of events may occur, so please do or change of performance date or time. Tickets Top up your Family Ticket check online or at the Box Office. We reserve the may be exchanged within the same run of the - pay £7.50 for an extra U18 ticket John Stewart Society members - offers right to make changes to the programme, ticket same Season and subject to availability. At least expire on 01 March 2020. prices and seating plans. 36 hours’ notice must be given and the original • Members of entertainment unions PFT Friends members - offers expire on All Offers, Friends, Groups, Concessions and Saver tickets returned to the Box Office. / Scottish Society of Playwrights / Seats do not apply to Preview performances and 01 February 2020. Transaction Fees: No booking fees apply for Students: Half Price seats in Price Bands 1 and 4. All offers are subject phone or face-to-face sales. A handling fee of to availability and cannot be used in conjunction £1.75 applies to all online purchases. with concessions or other offers. Full terms and conditions apply and are available to view online or at Box Office. 16 17 GROUPS & SCHOOLS

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March May July THU 12 Barefoot In The Park 7PM FRI 22 Gypsy 8PM WED 1 Kiss Me Quickstep 2PM WED 29 Private Lives 2PM

FRI 13 Barefoot In The Park 7PM SAT 23 Gypsy 2PM Private Lives 8PM Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM

SAT 14 Barefoot In The Park 2PM Gypsy 8PM THU 2 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM THU 30 Adventures With

The Painted People 8PM Barefoot In The Park 7PM WED 27 Gypsy 2PM FRI 3 Gypsy 8PM

FRI 31 Gypsy 8PM SUN 15 Barefoot In The Park 2PM Gypsy 8PM SAT 4 Gypsy 2PM

WED 18 Barefoot In The Park 2PM THU 28 Gypsy 2PM Private Lives 8PM

Barefoot In The Park 7PM Gypsy 8PM MON 6 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM August SAT 1 Gypsy 2PM THU 19 Barefoot In The Park 2PM SAT 30 Gypsy 2PM TUE 7 Private Lives 8PM Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM Barefoot In The Park 7PM Gypsy 8PM WED 8 Private Lives 2PM MON 3 Private Lives 8PM FRI 20 Barefoot In The Park SE 7PM Gypsy 8PM TUE 4 Adventures With SAT 21 Barefoot In The Park 2PM THU 9 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM June The Painted People 8PM FRI 5 Private Lives 8PM SE Barefoot In The Park 7PM FRI 10 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM WED 5 Adventures With SUN 22 Barefoot In The Park 2PM SAT 6 Private Lives 2PM SAT 11 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM The Painted People 2PM

WED 25 Barefoot In The Park 2PM Gypsy 8PM Gypsy 8PM Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM

Barefoot In The Park 7PM FRI 12 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM MON 13 Private Lives 8PM THU 6 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM THU 26 Barefoot In The Park 2PM SAT 13 Kiss Me Quickstep 2PM TUE 14 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM FRI 7 Gypsy SE 8PM

Barefoot In The Park 7PM Private Lives 8PM WED 15 Kiss Me Quickstep 2PM SAT 8 Gypsy 2PM

FRI 27 Barefoot In The Park 7PM FRI 19 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM Gypsy 8PM Private Lives 8PM SAT 20 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM MON 10 Cat On A Hot SAT 28 Barefoot In The Park 2PM THU 16 Private Lives 8PM Tin Roof 8PM Barefoot In The Park 7PM Gypsy 8PM FRI 17 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM TUE 11 Gypsy 8PM SUN 29 Barefoot In The Park 2PM MON 22 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM SAT 18 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM WED 12 Gypsy 2PM TUE 23 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM Gypsy 8PM Private Lives 8PM WED 24 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM THU 23 Adventures With THU 13 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM Supporters’ Evenings Private Lives 8PM The Painted People 8PM FRI 14 Adventures With Barefoot In The Park 20 March THU 25 Private Lives 2PM FRI 24 Adventures With The Painted People 8PM The Painted People 8PM Kiss Me Quickstep 10 July Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM SAT 25 Private Lives 2PM SAT 15 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM

Gypsy 7 August FRI 26 Gypsy 8PM Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM Gypsy 8PM SAT 27 Gypsy 2PM Private Lives 3 September MON 27 Gypsy 8PM MON 17 Private Lives 8PM Private Lives 8PM TUE 18 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM Turn to page 23 to find out about TUE 28 Private Lives 8PM MON 29 Gypsy 8PM Supporters’ Evenings SE TUE 30 Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM

20 21 Preview Performance Interpreted Performance Captioned Performance Post Show Talk Relaxed Performance SE Supporters’ Events FRIENDS and DONORS

WED 19 Kiss Me Quickstep 2PM MON 14 Adventures With Your gifts help to sustain our artistic activities and events. The Painted People 8PM Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM This includes the delivery of Relaxed Performances, support for TUE 15 Private Lives 8PM THU 20 Adventures With new play development as well as providing a platform from which The Painted People 8PM WED 16 Private Lives 2PM

FRI 21 Gypsy 8PM Gypsy 8PM we can create remarkable theatre. SAT 22 Gypsy 2PM THU 17 Gypsy 2PM Become a Friend and: Annual Festive Appeal Private Lives 8PM Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM • Enjoy £5 off tickets. See 6 summer Thank you to everyone who has THU 27 Sense And Sensibility 8PM FRI 18 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM shows and save £30! donated so far to our Send a Child to FRI 28 Sense And Sensibility 8PM Sense And Sensibility 8PM • Access exclusive Supporters’ the Theatre Festive Appeal. Last year SAT 29 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM SAT 19 Sense And Sensibility 2PM Evenings our audiences helped us give the gift of theatre to over 200 children. Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM • Receive CentreSTAGE, our new, MON 31 Gypsy 8PM MON 21 Gypsy 8PM quarterly newsletter which features advance information and TUE 22 Sense And Sensibility 8PM exclusive articles WED 23 Sense And Sensibility 2PM September • Enjoy 10% off food and shopping in TUE 1 Sense And Sensibility 8PM Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM our restaurant, café and shop WED 2 Sense And Sensibility 2PM THU 24 Kiss Me Quickstep 2PM Please donate £15 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM Join our Friends. Donate £40 per annum, £80 for Joint Friends. over the phone or THU 3 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM FRI 25 Adventures With online today. The Painted People 2PM Join over the phone or online today. Private Lives SE 8PM FRI 4 Private Lives 2PM Private Lives 8PM SE Thank you. We promise to invest your Supporters’ Evenings SAT 26 Private Lives 2PM Gypsy 8PM gift wisely, to support what you see Supporters have the unique chance SAT 5 Adventures With Gypsy 8PM onstage as well as behind the scenes. to join a director for a pre-theatre talk The Painted People 2PM MON 28 Gypsy 8PM and dinner. After the performance, In what other ways can Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM TUE 29 Private Lives 8PM there’s a chance to stay and meet the I support? cast, creatives and stage technicians MON 7 Sense And Sensibility 8PM WED 30 Private Lives 2PM Consider a legacy gift. Or put your for after-show drinks and lively TUE 8 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 8PM Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM business in the spotlight and sponsor a conversation. £65 per supporter WED 9 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM show. If you would like to make a vital Tickets include dinner, show and Private Lives 8PM October contribution of £1,500 per year or more, refreshments. Bring a guests for an THU 10 Private Lives 2PM THU 1 Kiss Me Quickstep 2PM for five years, you’ll become a member additional £65 per person. of The John Stewart Society and receive Kiss Me Quickstep 8PM Sense And See page 20 for dates. Sensibility 8PM a host of bespoke benefits. FRI 11 Kiss Me Quickstep 2PM FRI 2 Sense And Sensibility 2PM Adventures With The Painted People 8PM Adventures With If you would like to find out more about any of these opportunities, please write to The Painted People 8PM the Development Team or email [email protected]. SAT 12 Sense And Sensibility 2PM SAT 3 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2PM Gypsy 8PM Scottish Charity Number: SC013055 Gypsy 8PM 22 01796 484626 | PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 23 THEATRE FOR ALL CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES Barefoot In The Park 27 March, 7pm Adventures With The Painted People 11 September, 8pm SHADES OF Private Lives 25 September, 8pm

BSL INTERPRETED ACCESS PERFORMANCES Barefoot In The Park 25 March, 7pm Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 10 August, 8pm Sense And Sensibility 1 October, 8pm • Disabled parking is available near the main entrance. DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY • Wheelchair users can access all facilities. AND RELAXED A courtesy wheelchair can also be booked in advance. There are four PERFORMANCES spaces for wheelchair users in the These performances are specifically auditorium. designed to welcome people with an • For those who are D/deaf and Hard Of autistic spectrum condition, learning Hearing, an induction loop is available. disability or Dementia to experience Personal sound amplifiers are also theatre. available and can be booked in advance. These performances are for anyone who • For visually-impaired visitors, we have feels that they, or their family, would an audio description service which can enjoy a more relaxed environment. be provided for any performance, just To purchase tickets or for more notify Box Office in advance. information, please call our Box Office • For visually-impaired visitors, we on 01796 484626 or visit our online endeavour to arrange touch tours before information page. 50 ARTWORKS OVER THREE YEARS a performance (subject to availability). A Christmas Carol 21 December, 2.30pm SUBMISSIONS OPEN 23 SEPTEMBER • Guide dogs, hearing dogs and dogs for Barefoot In The Park 21 March, 2pm the disabled are welcome. Please advise Gypsy 17 September, 2pm See PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com for details Box Office in advance if you’re bringing your dog. Kiss Me Quickstep 19 August, 2pm 24 ©Steven Kushner Photography Ask a Theatre team member for your exclusive -30% online discount code for the C O U R T Y A R D Aberfeldy, Cask Tasting & Chocolate Tours The award-winning visitor attraction before 12.30 just 20 minutes’ drive from Pitlochry

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TUE 26 A Christmas Carol 10.30 AM A Christmas Carol 7.00 PM WED 27 A Christmas Carol 10.30 AM THU 12 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM

A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM FRI 13 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM

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DECEMBER A Christmas Carol 7.00 PM SUN 01 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM FRI 20 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM

WED 04 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM LIMITED A Christmas Carol 7.00 PM A Christmas Carol 7.00 PM SAT 21 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM

THU 05 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM A Christmas Carol 7.00 PM FRI 06 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM SUN 22 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM A Christmas Carol SE 7.00 PM MON 23 A Christmas Carol 2.30 PM Lunch Specials, Pre-Theatre and À La Carte Dinners Relax in a cosy atmosphere, enjoy a warm welcome, friendly service and of course Preview Performance Relaxed Performance SE Supporters’ Events great food – all served with our unique mix of Scotland and the Mediterranean! Interpreted Performance Captioned Performance Post Show Talk

Call us on 01796 473840 BOOK: 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com LIMITED Less than 100 seats left! Pitlochry’s family run lochside location

THE

GREEN PARKHOTEL

The Green Park is one of Pitlochry’s best known landmarks, enjoying unrivalled views over Loch Faskally from its lochside position. 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