2 SUMMER SEASON 17 Contents The Monarch Of The Glen ...... 03 Welcome . . . Special Offers for Groups ...... 04 Singin’ In The Rain ...... 05 John Durnin Kris Bryce High Society ...... 06 Concerts ...... 13 Explorers Garden ...... 14 Mary Rose ...... 16 . . . to the 2017 Summer Season at the Theatre in the Hills! Theatre For All ...... 22 Active Arts and hiper Youth Arts ...... 24 After the thrill of last year's seven show Season – even now, For J. M. Barrie, that same idea of looking back to a point Festival Shop and Gallery ...... 25 we're still receiving letters praising the Damsels trilogy to when something momentous began has an altogether more People ...... 26 the skies – we revert to our usual six productions this year. moving and disturbing purpose: Mary Rose dances back and Tours and Talks ...... 32 However, the extraordinarily diverse range of theatrical forth across a thirty year span with unsettling ease, its single Absurd Person Singular ...... 34 imaginations at play in the 2017 Season should more than ghost coming to represent the loss of an entire generation. compensate for the loss of last year's particular excitement! And if ghosts are nothing more than those who have been Support PFT ...... 40 forgotten, or left behind, then David Grieg's Europe, an Murray Airlie High Society, our second Cole Porter musical, will certainly John Stewart Society ...... 42 (carpenter), extraordinary, passionate story of borders, refugees and the making the set open the Season with a bang. There's a certain style to Festival Circle ...... 43 dispossessed, is peopled almost entirely by them: for when for People Porter's music and an elegance and wit to his lyrics that home can no longer sustain you, where else do you go? PFT Supporters - Friends, Benefactors . . . . . 44 few other musical theatre composers have rivalled – and and Festival Circle Members those qualities, when combined with this deliciously barbed A sense of belonging, of coming home, is very much a part of Supporters Evenings ...... 47 tale of society romance and self-discovery, make for an ‘the Pitlochry experience’, that indefinable something that intoxicating, energetic mix. only happens at the Theatre in the Hills and for which our Other Ways to Support PFT ...... 48 loyal audiences return year after year. Our unique repertoire The five other shows in the Season range far and wide. The Lottery ...... 49 system, delivered by an ensemble of gifted, versatile Scottish première of Alan Bennett's People - as funny, sad The Ruling Class ...... 50 “The stylistic performers resident at PFT for eight months, contributes and provocative a piece as he's ever written - somehow to that experience. So, too, do the host of other activities 2017 Diary ...... 56 equivalent of a captures fifty years of immense social change in the decline available to amuse, intrigue and engage throughout the Europe ...... 58 and fall of one woman, her world and her childhood home. West End producing Season. Mostly, however, we think ‘the Pitlochry experience’ One of the landmark plays of the late 1960s, Peter Barnes' Leon Sinden Awards ...... 64 is about people: people from across Scotland, the UK and the theatre set against The Ruling Class, an outrageous, hilarious assault on Ensemble Character Matrix ...... 65 wider world, coming together in a beautiful location to share entrenched privilege and position, still finds its target with in stories that amuse, affect and touch us all. And in a world 2017 Ensemble ...... 66 a picture-postcard ruthless accuracy. And Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn's where we seem more often divided than united, that's no Biographies ...... 68 masterful, horribly funny study of ruthless ambition in 1970s backdrop of rolling bad thing. Credits, Patrons and Trustees ...... 79 suburbia, seems all the more prescient when viewed through Perthshire hills” time's wrong-way telescope. So take your seats, say hello to the person sat next to you - Festival Food & Drink ...... 80 The Herald and prepare to enjoy this year's ‘Pitlochry experience’! PFT Staff ...... 81 John Durnin Kris Bryce Vision 2021 ...... 82 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Season 2018 ...... 83 01 Discover, explore, Scotland’s wild places TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

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Mention High Society to friends and you’ll generally get one of two reactions: either a gushing reply listing the 1956 “ There’s an movie’s stars in a given order (the usual sequence is Bing elegance and Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra - with Louis Armstrong sometimes an afterthought) or an enthusiastic catalogue of wit to the music the great Cole Porter songs that the film contains. A far less and lyrics of likely response is: “Oh, that was that terrible film that ruined The Philadelphia Story and was horrendously miscast . . .” Cole Porter’s

Yet that is exactly how I feel about the film: that to create High Society a sure-fire, money-making hit, Philip Barry’s sophisticated that I wanted 1939 comedy, an acidic study of America’s elite, was chopped up and crassly adapted into a vehicle for a group to reflect in the of the most bankable stars of the day, one which lacks any design. Setting credibility (is it just me who finds the relationship between a 53-year-old Bing Crosby and a 26-year-old Grace Kelly a it in 1952 gave touch creepy?) and is redeemed only by a clutch of fabulous me access to songs. the explosion So why, then, have I programmed the stage version of High Society – and why am I directing it? Well, thanks to that in fashion that strange alchemy that often occurs when musicals that happened began life as films are turned subsequently into theatre, almost all of the film’s faults have been addressed and across the remedied in its transition to the stage. Arthur Kopit’s world after splendid book restores the core elements of Barry’s

Songs Some play, putting the troubled issues of class, privilege and the Second & Musical of the cast self-knowledge front and centre, and returning Barry’s World War. The of High Society characters to the rarefied world that defines them. Numbers in rehearsal wealth of the Blending this reinvention with both musical numbers from the film and a smattering of other, equally affecting Cole Lord family ACT 1 Porter songs results in a piece that, in many ways, is what means that Paree, What Did You Do the film should have been: a witty, effervescent, warts-and- To Me? ACT 2 You’re Sensational all portrait of America’s social elite (complete with rampant the couture is Ridin’ High alcohol consumption, male sexual predators and effortless She’s Got That Thing Say It With Gin Throwing A Ball Tonight arrogance) that also manages to become a very moving ‘haute’ and we Let’s Misbehave Once Upon A Time It’s All Right With Me account of how a “Goddess without Mercy” - as Barry/Kopit What Is This Thing Called have had a ball Don’t Look At Me That Way describes Tracy Lord - becomes human. Love? I Worship You He’s A Right Guy recreating it.” Just One OF Those Things Costume So banish all thoughts of the film. This is how it should be! Who Wants To Be A Once Upon A Time Samantha/True Love sketch by Adrian Rees Millionaire? (reprise)/True Love Well, Did You Evah? (reprise) Adrian Rees John Durnin, Director SET & COSTUME DESIGNER 08 09 Cole Porter HIGH SOCIETY

Few composer/lyricists ever Others among his numerous songs that became standards analyze it. I can analyze the music of others. The word for matched the seemingly include I Love Paris, True Love, Just One Of Those Things Dick Rodgers's melodies, I think, is holy. For Jerome Kern, effortless wit, style and utter and Well, Did You Evah?, all of which are now heard in High sentimental. For Irving Berlin, simplicity. For my own, I don't urban sophistication of the Society, as well as Love For Sale, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye know." great Cole Porter, in words and In the Still of the Night. No wonder that when the One of his own lyrics that you'll hear tonight may provide and delightful melody. In a website Buzzed came to do a Valentine's Day list of the best both an example of him at his most exquisite as well as an long career, in which he wrote romantic songs, they rounded up 21 Porter lyrics and said: answer: "It was just one of those nights/ Just one of those over 1,200 songs for stage "Thinking of the right words to say to your sweetheart? fabulous flights/ A trip to the moon on gossamer wings/ and screen, only a handful Forget Taylor Swift and take notes from the man behind the Just one of those things." of his shows are revivable in most romantic music around." their original form nowadays, Mark Shenton is associate editor and joint lead theatre The man behind such sumptuous romantic melodies allied including Kiss Me, Kate (1948), a critic of The Stage, as well as a regular interviewer of to acerbic lyrics was himself unable to publicly admit his Tony-winning backstage comedy leading theatre figures for the paper. His personal website is full romantic desires. Born to wealth and high society (so based around a touring production shentonstage.com; you can also follow him on Twitter: the milieu that the characters inhabit in that musical would of Shakespeare's The Taming of the @Shentonstage. be known to him), he was also gay, but he married a rich Shrew, and the Paris-flavouredCan-Can divorcee, eight years his senior, in a mutually advantageous (1953). arrangement: she got social status, and he got the shield of But others have been extensively re-crafted heterosexual respectability. to be viable today, such as Anything Goes But as Kevin Kline, who played him the bio-film De-Lovely, (originally produced in 1934, and overhauled in the put it in a 2004 interview about the film: "Like any great version that is seen today in 1987) and High Society creative artist, he lived large. He had an enormous (originally written for a film in 1956, and subsequently appetite for pleasure, gastronomical and sexual. There adapted for the Broadway stage in 1998, last seen in are some juicy stories about his prodigious appetites. London at the Old Vic in the summer of 2015 and now being But he did not advertise his sexuality. It's bad for presented to you anew tonight). business if you're writing love songs and you're gay. But in a Broadway career that stretched over a half of a But it's all there in his lyrics." century, from his debut in a 1915 revue to the 1958 premiere As revelatory and witty as those lyrics are, his A Trip To of Mr Wonderful, as well as countless films, he wrote some melodies are also full of enchantment. As Richard of the nimblest, wittiest songs ever, from You're The Top Rodgers, probably Broadway's greatest melodist of ("You're the Tower of Pisa,/ You're the smile on the Mona the last century, said of Porter, "Few people realize The Moon On Lisa/ I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,/ But if, how architecturally excellent his music is. There's a baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!") and I Get a Kick Out of foundation, a structure and an embellishment. Then You ("Some, they may go for cocaine/ I'm sure that if I took Gossamer Wings you add the emotion he's put in and the result is Cole even one sniff/ It would bore me terrifically, too./ Yet I get a Theatre critic Mark Shenton applauds the Porter." kick out of you") to Brush Up Your Shakespeare ("If she says priceless musical and lyrical wit and wisdom of your behaviour is heinous/ Kick her right in the Coriolanus/ Porter himself couldn't define the source of his own style. Broadway's great composer/lyricist, Cole Porter Brush up your Shakespeare/ And they'll all kow-tow"). "I don't know how my music gets that way. I simply can't

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This wonderful woodland garden stretches over six acres offering fantastic views, unique architecture, exotic plants, Blue Poppies RHS Status Sponsored by The Scottish Rock Garden Club Exploration Fund specialist features like rock and crevice gardens, numerous Last year, Explorers was awarded National Collection Status Explorers is now a Partner Last Summer, Julia Corden travelled to Colorado, Utah and varieties of birds and rare wildlife, as well as resident red for its Meconopsis cultivars and species of large blue poppies Garden of the Royal Montana to study the flowers in the high altitude regions squirrels! by Plant Heritage. The garden now holds an impressive 32 Horticultural Society (RHS). of the Rocky Mountains in the USA. This unique journey cultivars! The RHS is a charitable Described by recent visitors as “beautiful and peaceful”, organisation, with four of enabled Julia to capture stunning images of the beautiful This award recognises the efforts of theExplorers team who, “a treasure trove”, “enchanting”, “perfect” and “a must see”, its own gardens in Surrey, and diverse plant life of that region. Her exhibition will be on over a decade, have sourced (and nurtured) blue poppies, make sure you explore this magnificent and mature garden Yorkshire, Essex and Devon, display in the marvellous David Douglas pavilion throughout to create the stunning collection that is a sweeping bank of this Summer. which are supported by 200 the Summer. blue, best enjoyed every year, from May to July. Located adjacent to Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Explorers is independently-owned gardens Get up close to images of the delicate Lewisia rediviva divided into areas representing different parts of the globe. around the UK. growing in baked soils, the blue Lupinus (which grows to Explorers offers you the chance to learn more about the Nursery around 18 inches high!), the exquisite Polemonium viscosum We try to source unusual, easy-to-grow (and Scottish This award continues to pay testament to the dedication Scottish Plant Hunters’ adventures and see the results of and images of sweeping high mountain meadows from the grown) plants that you simply can’t or won’t find in large and talent of Julia Corden, Explorers Garden Manager, and their efforts. iconic Bear Tooth area of the Rockies. garden centres or retailers. her team of garden volunteers, who work tirelessly to create Explorers brings living history, from all the corners of the and maintain the high standard of design and planting you The exhibition runs until 29th October and entrance is free We sell many of these plants at the Theatre Shop, but pop world, to life. A perfect destination that all ages can enjoy, can experience today. with Explorers entry. up to the plant sales area at the entrance of Explorers to as well as budding botanists or those interested in botanical view our full range. RHS members can enjoy Buy-1-Get-1-Free entry to Explorers. history.

14 15 Mary Rose by J.M. Barrie Creative Did You Cast Team Know? Mrs. Otery ...... Valerie Cutko * DIRECTOR “Mary Rose made a Richard Baron famously profound Harry Morland Blake / Simon Blake . Elliot Fitzpatrick impression on Alfred SET & COSTUME J.M. Barrie ...... Alan Steele Hitchcock during its first run DESIGNER in London in 1920. He made Mr. Morland ...... Ian Marr * Neil Warmington several frustrated attempts over the years to make a film Mrs. Morland ...... Irene Allan * LIGHTING DESIGNER of this play and repeatedly Mary Rose ...... Sara Clark Downie Wayne Dowdeswell referred back to it in the course of making Vertigo” COMPOSER Mr. Cameron ...... Alan Mirren * (extract from Charles Barr’s Jon Beales volume on Vertigo, for the *eligible for the Leon Sinden Award British Film Institute's STAGE MANAGER Film Classics series) Kay Hesford

DEPUTY STAGE This is the second time Alan Steele has played J.M. Barrie Acts MANAGER (BOOK) The action takes place in a manor house in Sussex and on a at PFT. He also appeared Maggi Lindsay small island in the Outer Hebrides between 1890 and 1920. as Barrie in The Admirable Crichton in 2014 Act 1 The Drawing Room ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Act 2 The Island Mary Rose was performed Heather Saunderson in our very first Summer Act 3 The Drawing Room Season, in 1951, and starred There will be one interval of 20 minutes between Act 2 and a young Joss Ackland and Act 3 his wife-to-be, Rosemary Kirkcaldy

Mary Rose, 1951

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Director’s Notes During the summer of 1919, a problem that had been troubling J.M. Barrie for some time reached crisis point. A small lump that had developed on his right hand became extremely painful, leaving his dreadful handwriting more illegible than ever. In the midst of a renewed burst of artistic activity, he desperately wanted to write the new play that was now obsessing him. The only solution was for him to write Mary Rose with his left hand. Although he eventually had hospital treatment that autumn, Barrie continued to write mostly with his left hand for the rest of his life, soon voicing the idea that the writing from his two hands emerged from different people: the left-handed one more “sinister” (the Latin definition for “left-sided”) than the right.

Barrie’s mysterious, and at times genuinely sinister, “ We tried to ghost story was much altered between manuscript and production. In the process, it grew shorter, his vision grew put a world darker and in combination with Norman O’Neill’s dramatic left in time music, including “the wordless singing of the Island Voices” played on a carpenter’s saw, the play grew increasingly in amongst poignant. Written in the aftermath of the carnage of the First World War – when Barrie lost the step-son who inspired a setting of Peter Pan, killed in action aged just twenty one – and the the war, when even more deadly “Spanish Flu” pandemic of 1918, when many thousands of parents suddenly lost previously healthy people left and children, the play’s moving reflections on the grieving process, survivor guilt and the inexorable passage of time never returned merge with the playwright’s own search for metaphysical . . . a little gilded and emotional comfort, redemption and resolution. In the play’s movement from cosy Victoriana to post-war box in a burnt desolation, we perhaps see Barrie’s final leave-taking of the mystical fantasy island, which held such a personal wasteland.” and symbolic significance for him, for the new world of the brave, but unsentimental, Australian soldier, Harry. Neil Warmington SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Richard Baron, Director

Ian Marr pictured Irene Allan, Ian Marr during his costume and Sara Clark Downie fitting. in rehearsal 18 19 MARY ROSE J.M. Barrie: the valley of the shadow by Adrienne Scullion

The writer of that most deceptively playful of modern For all the theatrical island and even the Morland’s haunted house – combine fairytales, Peter Pan (1904), is also the author of some mystery of the island, idyll and menace in equal measure. Whilst Peter Pan acts extraordinary and troubling ghost stories. The prose and and the big production manically to push back time by sheer act of will, Mary Rose the plays of James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) teem with and acting challenges of eddies without agency between past and present with no uncanny visitors, unexpected familiars and unexplained the major time shifts that power to break free. It is a terrible fate with even her family absences – with no loss more mysterious or more happen in the play, Mary Rose ceding hope: ‘Mary Rose belongs to the past, and we have to unsettling that that of the eponymous Mary is a very human story about those who are left behind live in the present […]. Even if we could drag her back to tell Rose. As a little girl, and then again as an adult, and those who experience loss. Because, of course, each us now what these things mean, I think it would be a shame.’ Mary Rose is lost on an island in the Scottish time she disappears people are left behind and themselves For decades following his death, Barrie’s plays fell out Hebrides. She just disappears; there one age; indeed, they grow old, in the case of her parents, and of fashion, generally damned as mawkish vestiges of a minute, gone the next. But the real horror is grow up, in the case of her son. With little thought as to bygone era. More modern theatre makers have been drawn that, on each occasion, she returns; and she the families left behind, Peter Pan offers an exuberant to this collision of sentiment and horror, playfulness and returns having not aged a day and with no explanation of what happens when babies fall out of their fearfulness, light and dark, change and changelessness, sense of having been absent or feeling of prams: they enter a bold adventureland and play endless recognising in his plays a genuine theatrical challenge. But, in time having passed. She returns with no childish games. But with Mary Rose the focus is entirely this recovery, Mary Rose remains a challenge for producers memories to explain, first, three weeks on the ramifications of such loss and its impact on three and audiences alike. The character of Mary Rose herself is and, then, 25 years lost to the island. generations of one family. In a scene in Act 3 that transcends difficult (‘curiously young for her age, as if, you know how sentiment to become a deeply affecting reflection on the Barrie’s two fantastical islands – just a touch of frost may stop the growth of a plant and experience of death and the passing of time, the ageing Neverland in Peter Pan (1904) and the yet leave it blooming’), several characters (the Morlands, Morlands talk about the loss of their daughter, their ‘island that likes to be visited’ in Mary Simon, Mr Amy) age most 30 years from Act 1 to Act 3, and bemusement and regret at their forgetting of the pain of the Rose (1920) – are dark reflections of each the Morland’s house too falls back and forth through time. past, and their guilt at having lived on and at finding joy in other. In contrast to the headily, seductive But the technical challenges apart, here is a play worthy that lived life. For a generation that survived the Great War, attractions of Neverland, we are held at of exploration and perseverance, a play of unexpected this is a scene that reflects on national as well as individual arm’s length from Mary Rose’s island. We hear and terrible truth about what it is to lose and to be lost. mourning, with the passing of time here deployed by Barrie something of its mythology as a place to be Barrie is obsessed by death and, for all its witty, amusing as a fearful, if inevitable, attack on what was once held close: avoided. Despite its natural beauty, we are warned delights, Mary Rose is, perhaps, his most achingly mournful ‘I suppose’, concedes Mrs Morland, ‘it is all to the good that as against landing on it and of resting on it. Whilst we meditation on the impact of such loss on the living. the years go by the dead should recede farther from you.’ even spend a little time there, in a falsely halcyon Act Adrienne Scullion is Pro Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of 2, we never learn its truth. Mary Rose’s experience on the Across many of his plays, Barrie reveals a fascination Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen’s University island is never revealed and her story, and that of her family, with time and death. Barrie’s fantastical places – Peter’s Belfast. is all the more troubling for that. Neverland, Lob’s enchanted wood, Mary Rose’s Hebridean

J.M. Barrie

20 21 As the winner For those with severe visual impairments, we provide of UK Theatre's an audio description service which can be delivered Most Welcoming at any performance, as long as Box Office is given prior Theatre In notice. Scotland award • With prior notification, we are also happy to arrange pre- - for two years in a performance touch tours of the stage, set, costumes and row! - PFT naturally props, to allow those with little or no vision to learn more prides itself on being a about the show they will shortly experience. welcoming, accessible and inclusive organisation, one which tries to engage with as • Guide dogs, hearing dogs and dogs for the disabled wide a cross section of communities as it can from across are very welcome at PFT, but we would be grateful if Perthshire, Tayside, Scotland and the UK. As regular visitors you could please advise Box Office in advance if you're know all too well, one of the special things about making bringing your dog. a visit to the Theatre in the Hills is that you never know in If you think there is more that we advance who you will meet when you're here! could do to improve our access We provide a range of access services, so when you book services, or if you know of your tickets, please let our Box Office know if you have any those who would welcome special requirements and they will do their best to advise alternative services – and assist you. large-print, audio or Braille brochures, for example, or BSL signed or captioned Access performances – do let us Full level wheelchair access is provided throughout know. We're keen to hear your the theatre’s auditorium, foyer, café bar and suggestions and our friendly Box restaurant, with two wheelchair-friendly WCs on the Office team will be only too happy to Pitlochry Auchterarder School and the cast of Para Handy same level. pass on your recommendations. Nursery children playing on a • A courtesy wheelchair can be booked in advance for those boat made from elements of PFT's with limited mobility who prefer to use a wheelchair in We are aware that, for a You, our audiences, can help us deliver these ambitions PFT Carousel set. the building. Staff range of reasons, some by identifying those who you think might benefit from individuals and groups becoming part of the larger PFT family and assisting us to • Four dedicated spaces for wheelchair users (or those with may feel excluded from reach out to them and welcome them into the fold. So if you mobility issues who may find steps difficult to use) are the activities at PFT that so know of individuals or groups that might feel that PFT is “not provided in the auditorium. many others currently enjoy: for them”, for whatever reason, and who you think might Parking for Blue Badge holders (8 spaces) is provided those who are lonely, isolated, or enjoy the opportunity to participate in the positive, happy next to the main theatre entrance. marginalised in some way, for example. In order to ensure and supportive experience that is the hallmark of a visit to that our ambition to provide “theatre for all” is no hollow PFT, simply contact our Box Office staff, who will be happy For hearing aid users, an induction loop is provided in boast, we want to do whatever we can to overcome any to note your thoughts, ideas and suggestions. the auditorium, whilst personal sound amplifiers can obstacles to inclusion, whether financial, social, cultural or be booked in advance through the Box Office for those geographic, and whether real or perceived. with impaired hearing.

23 For over a decade, we’ve been The Festival Gallery continues running our award-winning Active to exhibit a wide variety of art Arts programme of workshops and works - and more artists than masterclasses for adult learners. This ever, from all over Scotland, Summer, we're taking a break from will be showing their work in Active Arts whilst we review the future 2017. They will be presenting options for this much-loved activity work in different media and strand, which will recommence in autumn styles, with subjects ranging from 2017. Although we don’t have specific details Scottish landscapes, floral and bird just yet, there’s plenty in the pipeline: from studies to still lifes. Many are regular writing workshops and a theatre skills school, exhibitors here whose paintings to photography and craft-based sessions. Keep have been admired and purchased checking the website for details of the autumn over the years, but as before, we are programme! also introducing a number of artists who, although well-known elsewhere, are new to Pitlochry. With up to 200 works We’re always keen to hear on display, the Festival Gallery your ideas, suggestions and has a wide range to suit all feedback about Active Arts. tastes (and pockets) and Please e-mail drew.scott@ paintings can be removed pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com or on purchase. complete a Customer Feedback Form (available from Box Office). Please do get in touch: your suggestions are most valuable and always welcome!

For a great shopping experience, make sure you visit the Festival Shop in the Theatre foyer. It’s packed with all kinds of wonderful gift ideas Scottish Myths & Legends that we hope you’ll find hard to resist! activities week Browse our latest selection of leather handbags, stunning glassware, chinaware £3.50 Fun & games for 5-9 year olds and pottery, accessories for the home, per Monday 17 - Friday 21 July eclectic, affordable art works – many session of them by Scottish artists - purses and scarves galore, beautiful jewellery, nostalgic memorabilia, music, books . . . Arts & Crafts • Puzzles • Challenges • Treasure Hunts • Messy Sessions Open Daily: Sessions run every day from 10.30am to 12.00 noon and take place in PFT’s 10am to 10pm (performance days) Community Education studios next to Fonab Castle Hotel. Check our website for full details. 10am to 5pm (non-performance days)

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DIRECTOR Although the location Patrick Sandford is Stacpole House, the family name is Stacpoole! SET & COSTUME Alan Bennett reveals in Cast DESIGNER the introduction to his Charles Cusick-Smith script that “One proof of Dorothy Stacpoole ...... Valerie Cutko aristocracy is to subtly Theodore ...... Dougal Lee LIGHTING DESIGNER distinguish the name of the Wayne Dowdeswell house from the name of its Colin ...... Jack Wharrier * location.” STAGE MANAGER Bevan ...... Alex Scott Fairley * A section of Orazio Kay Hesford Samacchini’s Mercure Iris ...... Irene Allan ordonne à Énée ASSISTANT STAGE June Stacpoole ...... Margaret Preece d'abandonner Didon features MANAGER (BOOK) - as a 6x4 metre tapestry - in Ralph Lumsden ...... Mark Faith Heather Saunderson today's show! Bishop ...... Ian Marr * ASSISTANT STAGE Elements of the bed that Bruce ...... Cameron Johnson * MANAGER stars in Theodore's film have Liz Howarth been onstage at PFT before Les ...... Alan Steele * - the four posts are from Fredrik and Anne Egerman's Nigel ...... Ewan Petrie * bed in A Little Night Music Gofer ...... Sara Clark Downie * Acts (2015). PFT is dedicated to The action takes place in re-engineering or recycling Louise ...... Helen Mallon * a country house in South wherever possible. Brit ...... Serena Giacomini * Yorkshire several years ago.

All other parts played by members of the cast There will be one interval of 20 minutes between Act 1 *eligible for the Leon Sinden Award and Act 2. Copyright agents for works by Alan Bennett United Agents [email protected] “PEOPLE was first performed at People is sponsored by the Royal National Theatre in Mrs Katharine Liston in October 2012”. loving memory of Iain Liston 26 27 PEOPLE Director’s Notes Alan Bennett loves eccentric elderly ladies. People has three - a casting challenge. The actors (these days we don’t say actresses) may be playing much younger roles in the other plays. Wigs might help, expensively, but what really matters is the conviction with which the cast portray the inner complexity of each character’s state of mind and stage of life, rather than any clichéd stage dodderiness. Much of the Pitlochry audience is ‘senior’, and you seem radiant with “It was a real activity. I know you were up Ben Vrackie this morning! treat to design Bennett’s own introduction explains his richly stimulating themes. He’s considering how we turn our history, especially People, having country houses, into saleable commodities (the Scots do Dorothy's to work out Dior it too, with mountains, shortbread, tartan, haggis, even Glaswegian drunks . . .). Bennett dislikes this commercialism, a very quick but knows to be careful before attacking. Conservation, like everything, demands money, but Dorothy yearns for a transformation society where things like education, health care, and history in view of a can be financially taken for granted, and she can be left in peace. damp run down Actors can’t act themes, only human situations, and the play stately home to is also about the characters finding what they can call home, about startling relationships between sisters, and about love a National Trust - Dorothy’s memory of an old fling or the challenge of new palace. I also love for June.

And then, another challenge: there is the s-e-x, onstage had a great time just as tricky as in real life - well, in my limited experience! researching in Is it simply about how many clothes the actors take off, and how much “you know” do the audience see? If only the Louvre for it were that technically simple. Actually, again, it’s all to an appropriate do with acting, suggestion, and above all irony. Ever since his early naughty-seaside-postcard play Habeus Corpus, classical oil Bennett (a gay man growing up when gay sex was still illegal) has had a gloriously irreverent attitude. In People, painting!” wherever the tongues kiss, sooner or later they will be firmly Cameron Dorothy's Charles Cusick Smith Johnson, Irene Allan Balenciaga in the cheek . . . SET & COSTUME DESIGNER and Valerie Cutko in rehearsal Enjoy! Patrick Sandford, Director

28 Costume sketches 29 by Charles Cusick Smith PEOPLE

A recent edition of my local free newspaper, the Camden brilliant adaptation of The Wind in the Willows (1990), bent wryly on the podium that while his play may not have been New Journal, has a picture of Alan Bennett on the front on developing Toad Hall into executive offices, or the social better than Ayckbourn's, at least it was funnier. page drawing attention to his public stand on two services in Enjoy (1980), moving the inhabitants of the last The often poignant sexual explicitness, with rough-edged significant events: the regrettable closure of an organic back-to-back in Leeds into a museum for the authentic bits, always subversive and unsettling, is often ascribed to café, and the celebratory opening of a new Community working classes. a change in Bennett after his mother died. Around the same Library. It all becomes so complicated, for Bennett wants access for time, he found he had bowel cancer and came out about Of course, it was the independence of the café that all without dumbing down. His nostalgia for the privileges (or his own private relations, first with his house-cleaner, Anne appealed to Bennett in an age of supermarkets and rights) he enjoyed as a grammar school boy is tempered with Davies, then with his life partner, Rupert Thomas, the editor Starbucks. And the library (to which he's one of 500 disgust, rather like John of Gaunt’s in Richard II, that this land of World of Interiors. named donors) replaces the public one closed by of such dear souls, dear for her reputation throughout the His compendium of diaries, profiles, production notes and the council in the name of cost-cutting. The café's world, should be leased out, “like to a tenement or pelting architectural writing, Untold Stories (2005), is one of the closure, for Bennett, was a shame; the public library's, farm.” great books of our time, confessional writing at its best, shameful. No one writes more angrily, or acidly, about The final words inForty Years On put up the "for sale" notice: funniest and most purposeful. Once described as a one-man the steady decline in the "quality of life" for ordinary "A valuable site at the crossroads of the world. At present awkward squad, Bennett is nothing if not prickly and morally people in a community, in the guise of comic relief. on offer to European clients. Outlying portions of the estate unforgiving. In People, Bennett explores the pros and cons of sharing already disposed of to sitting tenants. Of some historical But in his fiction, as well as in his stage plays, in masterful one's personal treasures on the open market, setting one's and period interest. Some alterations and improvements stories like The Laying on of Hands (2001) and The Greening goods free to be shared, in a saleroom here, or an exhibition necessary." of Mrs Donaldson (2010), he writes with an outrageous there. People who need people in Bennett’s plays are Paradoxically, Bennett himself has become a valuable asset. freedom and underlying compassion that is singular to his usually the old, the lonely, the marginalised, the sexually Alan The biggest success of his career, The History Boys (2004), temperament: in the first, the hilariously detailed memorial Bennett undernourished, and they often go to church because God has made in excess of £5m for the National Theatre, but it service of a promiscuous masseur becomes a trial and a might be there; and that includes the vicars. struck at the heart of what Bennett is about in its central torment to the Anglican vicar, and a skilful meditation on the Now, where People is concerned, Bennett is in two minds, dispute over the purpose of learning. Politicians discuss the church itself; in the second, a widow with a part-time job in a on the efficacy of art or the democratic right to enjoy it. arts in terms of economic benefit. Bennett, like Hector, the medical school takes in lodgers and joins in their sex games Alan Bennett: Elitism for everyone might be his battle-cry if he wanted defiant English teacher in his play, is with AE Housman: "All in exchange for their rent. one. Which is why he's become such a quietly powerful knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest There are great themes in Bennett: the divided life of spying, critic of the closure of libraries, the charging of tuition human use." the ordinariness of the monarchy, pomposity and stupidity fees in universities, the "rationalisation" of the NHS, the Never short of The fact that this brilliant satirist and poet of the heart – a in public life, carnality in the medical and ecclesiastical commodification of public services. lot of his work, noted Michael Frayn, is about that moment professions, the loss of dignity, loneliness. At the end of Forty Years On (1968), his first play, Bennett's when people wake up to the fact that they have passionate things to say . . . But everything he writes is also an excuse to vent an opinion. headmaster, originally played by John Gielgud, laments the feelings – is a National Theatre institution and not a West And it's because he has so much to say, and can say it so changes in Albion School: "The crowd has found the door End fixture, marks the changing nature of our theatre culture well, that we eagerly anticipate his next play, and his next . . . into the secret garden. Now they will tear up the flowers by and the increasingly radical tone of his work. and he says them with such unbounded pleasure and respect. the roots, strip the borders and strew them with paper and If there ever was any such thing as "a West End play", broken bottles." The difficulty for Bennett is that the yobs Bennett never wrote one. But he is, above all, an entertainer, This edited extract originally appeared in The Independent are at the gates as well as the barbarians, and he's really on so well! and easily the funniest of all our dramatists. He was slightly on 3 November, 2012. Read the full article on www. their side; well, a bit more on their side than he is on that of miffed to receive a best comedy award in the same year Alan independent.co.uk or download The Independent Daily the management classes, the weasel estate agents in his by Michael Coveney Ayckbourn won in the best play category. He commented Edition App on subscriptions.independent.co.uk 30 31 Backstage Tours Post Show Talks Enhance your theatre experience with Taking place shortly after curtain This hugely popular illustrated talk is once again our popular guided tour, taking you down, you’ll head back into the led by our Community & Education Director, behind the scenes to reveal the secret auditorium to meet with PFT’s Artistic Drew Scott. It covers all aspects of PFT’s stage spaces and inner workings of PFT! Director, John Durnin, who will offer a productions, from set design and auditions to the director’s insight into both the show you’ve rehearsal and set building process, using set models, You’ll visit the Green Room (which isn’t green!), just seen and PFT’s unique repertoire system. In props and costumes from past PFT shows. You will also have where our cast and crew relax and prepare to go on addition, you will have the chance to meet some of the cast the opportunity to ask any questions about our productions. stage, see where and how our elaborate costumes are and ask that burning question. made, have a look at our huge scenery workshop, visit the Having spent several years as Stage Manager here at PFT, docks where sets are stored – and, of course, set foot on the During this talk, you will also see the stage set being ‘turned Drew is ideally placed to give a personal insight into life famous PFT stage itself! around’ for the evening performance of a completely backstage. Included in the talk will be a sneaky peek at the different play. We think that’s worth seeing for the ticket show being “fitted up” on stage that day and a look at how Along the way, you’ll discover lots of fascinating facts and price alone! PFT has changed since its early days in the tent, as well as learn how to tell a gravetrap from a swing technician! our vision for the future. Price: £3:00 Time: Around 5 minutes after the performance. Tours run on most Wednesdays from 28 June until And to top it all, you’ll also enjoy a complimentary cup of tea 11 October. It would help our Front of House staff immensely if or coffee and a Danish pastry! you could leave the auditorium briefly at the end of the Time: 11.00am Price: £5.00 performance to allow them to clean. Thank you. Secrets of the Stage Talks are on most Fridays from (These walking tours last one-and-a-half hours and will 30 June to 13 October Absurd Person Singular Europe 30 August involve some stair climbing). 28 June Mary Rose 13 September Time: 11.00am–12.30pm Price: £7:50 High Society 12 July The Ruling Class People 9 August 27 September 32 33 Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn Did You Creative Know? Cast Team Jane Hopcroft ...... Serena Giacomini DIRECTOR Absurd Person Singular is the 24th Ayckbourn play to be Sidney Hopcroft ...... Alex Scott Fairley Richard Baron produced at PFT Ronald Brewster-Wright ...... Dougal Lee SET & COSTUME The Jacksons' high-spirited Marion Brewster-Wright ...... Margaret Preece DESIGNER dog is actually Dougal Lee Eva Jackson ...... Helen Mallon Ken Harrison barking mad! Geoffrey Jackson ...... Alan Mirren LIGHTING DESIGNER The Aga oven in the Wayne Dowdeswell Brewster-Wrights' kitchen was last seen in the set Acts FIGHT DIRECTOR for our 2001 production of Raymond Short Absurd Person Singular, The action takes place in the early 1970s on three designed by Trevor Coe successive Christmas Eves. STAGE MANAGER Kate Schofield Act 1 The kitchen of the Hopcrofts’ small suburban house DEPUTY STAGE Act 2 The kitchen of the Jacksons’ fourth floor MANAGER (BOOK) apartment Maggi Lindsay

Act 3 The kitchen of the Brewster-Wrights’ large ASSISTANT STAGE Victorian house MANAGER There will be a first interval of 10 minutes between Act 1 Liz Howarth and Act 2, and a second interval of 15 minutes between Act 2 and Act 3. Absurd Person Singular was first produced at the Library Theatre, Scarborough in Costume June 1972 and subsequently sketch by by Michael Codron at the 34 Criterion Theatre, London, Ken Harrison 35 opening on 4 July 1973. ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR

“ A few decades Director’s Notes ago, a kitchen was not thought If Alan Ayckbourn’s style is structurally traditional, his of as a place for dazzling and endlessly inventive variations within it display an impressive array of comic forms and theatrical entertaining as it diversity: sets which interpenetrate each other to suggest is now. In Absurd the tangled lives of two couples; interlocking trilogies such as last season’s PFT production of Damsels In Distress; Person Singular, multiple plot outcomes which, taken together, illustrate the it’s a separate consequences of seemingly trivial decisions; and always the accumulation of farcical elements hurtling characters room used to toward often disastrous ends which seem both predestined escape other and natural. Drama critic Michael Billington has said of him: “He is fascinated by what theatre can do. He is even more people – not only fascinated by showing that there is virtually nothing that it tedious party cannot do”. guests, such as In Absurd Person Singular, this bold formal experimentation blends with a shrewd analysis of the social zeitgeist (with Dick and Lottie critics noting that the success of the upwardly mobile Potter, but property developer Sidney Hopcraft foreshadows the ethos of the Margaret Thatcher years to come), along with also husbands, bleakly comic and pessimistic illustrations of the marriage wives – and relationship, which could be said to be Chekhovian in their interpenetration of laughter and tears, and all serving to overexcited brilliantly illuminate the expressed and suppressed desires of dogs. So for a Britain’s middle class. true reflection of Richard Baron, Director any relationship, look in the kitchen!” Ken Harrison Margaret Preece and Dougal Lee SET & COSTUME DESIGNER in rehearsal Costume sketch by 36 Ken Harrison 37 ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR

Ayckbourn: Ever so funny . . . and always truthful

Absurd Person Singular - the title was originally intended As a footnote: since I was writing about parties and guests for a play I didn’t write and subsequently, because I rather arriving, it also relieved me of the tedium of all that hallo- cared for it, given to the play I did write - was first produced how-are-you-good-bye-nice-to-see-you business. in Scarborough in 1972. Absurd Person Singular, then, could be described as my first At that time, I remember, I was becoming increasingly offstage action play. It is also, some critics have observed, a fascinated by the dramatic possibilities of offstage action. rather weighty comedy. Its last scene darkens considerably. Not a new device, granted, but one with plenty of comic I make no apologies for this. As I’ve grown in confidence as potential still waiting to be tapped. Very early on in my a dramatist (confidence, that is, that I can get most of the career as a dramatist I discovered that, given the chance, techniques right most of the time), I have also grown in an audience’s imagination can do far better work than any the conviction that I owe it to the characters I’ve created to number of playwright’s words. The offstage character develop and therefore to a certain extent to dictate how a hinted at but never seen can be dramatically as significant play should run. and telling as his onstage counterparts. Offstage action is I’ve always had an aversion to comedies that rely upon more difficult. Unless care is taken, if the dramatist chooses natty, superimposed denouements in order to round off to describe rather than show his action, the audience can the evening. Why comedies should have to do this whereas rapidly come to the conclusion that they’re sitting in the dramas are allowed to finish as they like is beyond me. As a wrong auditorium. nation, we show a marked preference for comedy when it Thus, when I came to write Absurd Person Singular and comes to play-going, as any theatre manager will tell you. started by setting the action in Jane and Sidney Hopcroft’s At the same time, over a large area of the stalls one can sitting room, I was halfway through the act before I realised detect a faint sense of guilt that there is something called that I was viewing the evening from totally the wrong enjoyment going on. Should we, people seem to be asking, perspective. Dick and Lottie were indeed monstrously be sitting here laughing like this? It’s to do with the mistaken overwhelming, hearty and ultimately very boring, and far belief that because it’s funny, it can’t be serious - which better heard occasionally but not seen. By a simple switch of course isn’t true at all. Heavy, no; serious, yes. It would of setting to the kitchen, the problem was all but solved, therefore seem unwise to compound this guilt feeling by adding incidentally far greater comic possibilities than the artificially resolving the play. In other words, it can be funny, sitting room ever held. For in this particular case, the obvious but let’s make it truthful. Alan offstage action was far more relevant than its onstage By Alan Ayckbourn, reproduced from Alan Ayckbourn’s official Ayckbourn counterpart. at his home in website: wwwalanayckbournnet Scarborough, 2016

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“ There is a stark Creative contrast between Cast Team the setting and 13th Earl of Gurney / McKyle / DIRECTOR the costume in DI Brockett ...... Alan Steele * John Durnin The Ruling Class. Daniel Tucker ...... Ian Marr * SET & COSTUME The home of the Bishop Lampton ...... Mark Faith * DESIGNER Earl of Gurney Sir Charles Gurney ...... Dougal Lee Adrian Rees is fairly stuck in Lady Claire Gurney ...... Irene Allan * LIGHTING DESIGNER the 17th century, Dinsdale Gurney ...... Ewan Petrie * Wayne Dowdeswell but the fashion Matthew Peake / is the late 1960s Kelso Truscott, Q.C...... Alex Scott Fairley* STAGE MANAGER Kate Schofield and the contrast Jack, 14th Earl of Gurney ...... Jack Wharrier is marked at first. Dr Herdman ...... Elliot Fitzpatrick * DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER (BOOK) The leanings in the Mrs Piggot-Jones / Sergeant Fraser . . Rebecca Elise * Marianne Forde latter stages of Mrs Treadwell / McKyle’s Assistant .Margaret Preece * the play towards Grace Shelley ...... Joanna Lucas * ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER the darker corners *eligible for the Leon Sinden Award Liz Howarth of the Victorian age are also Acts The Ruling Class was first reflected in how The action takes place in and around Gurney Manor, at the presented by Gene clinic of Dr. Herder, and in a variety of locations in London, Persson and Richard Pilbrow that 60s look including the House of Lords. The time is 1968. at Nottingham Playhouse on 6 November 1968, and changes.” subsequently transferred There will be one interval of 20 minutes between Act 1 to the Picadilly Theatre, and Act 2. London, on 26 February Adrian Rees 1969. SET & COSTUME DESIGNER 50 51 THE RULING CLASS Director’s Notes I was lucky enough to discover Peter Barnes’ unique theatrical imagination as a novice director, when I was given the chance to direct Leonardo’s Last Supper as my second-ever professional production. Written the year after The Ruling Class, Leonardo contained all of the defining traits of Barnes’ voice: wild theatricality, heightened language, “low” comedy, vigorous anti-authoritarianism, and a delight in excess and extremity. I loved every second of it.

My subsequent, voracious reading of Barnes’ other plays led, inevitably, to The Ruling Class. This surreal tale of mad Jack Gurney left almost as great an impression upon me as the original 1968 production had on the theatre critic of The Sunday Times, the venerable Harold Hobson, who ranked its achievement as equivalent to those of Waiting For Godot, Look Back In Anger and The Birthday Party. Formidable company indeed . . .

Written in the year of the student uprisings, when the established order throughout Europe seemed about to be overthrown, Barnes’ target was the hereditary peerage, the unelected, privately educated elite, living on inherited wealth, and exercising an unhealthy influence on the military, the judiciary, the church and the political realm through familial relationships and the old school tie. In 2017, the establishment may be very differently composed - faceless corporations and super-rich autocrats are now the political puppet-masters - but a ruling class nonetheless remains with us, shaping and influencing our world from the shadows. How Barnes would have relished taking them on!

Barnes’ hero was the playwright Ben Jonson, Shakespeare’s contemporary and composer of the Bard’s epitaph. An exuberant satirist with a love of the underclass and a thrilling command of language, Jonson would have adored The Ruling Class, recognising in it a spirit and an appetite to match his “ . . . an anti-boss own. Knowing that, and being all-too aware of the special position the play occupies in modern British theatre, I have drama for the approached this production with huge anticipation – but also with a sense of dread. Never has the director’s mantra Costume shorn, not the - “whatever you do, just don’t mess it up” - seemed more Irene Allan sketch by and Jack appropriate . . . shearers . . .” Adrian Rees Wharrier in rehearsal Peter Barnes John Durnin, Director 52 53 THE RULING CLASS

Seriously Funny by Michael Billington

Peter Barnes was an exhilarating After working as a film critic, story editor and screenwriter, In recent years, Barnes turned increasingly to films, dramatist who never found a secure Barnes achieved theatrical fame in 1968, with a baroque television and radio. His movie adaptation of Enchanted foothold in British theatre. As a comedy, The Ruling Class, which Stuart Burge presented at April, allegedly Bill Clinton’s favourite film, won him an Oscar sworn enemy of naturalism and Nottingham Playhouse. Harold Hobson called it one of the nomination in 1993. He wrote countless mini-series for writer of large-cast plays such as best first plays of its generation; and it revealed Barnes’s American TV including Arabian Nights, Noah’s Ark and The The Ruling Class and Red Noses, ability to say serious things in a funny way. But behind the Bible. And he wrote an outstanding series of monologues for he was always swimming against abundant invention and borrowings from Shakespeare, BBC radio, Barnes’s People, that attracted just about every the tide. But a Barnes play was Verdi, the Marx Brothers and WC Fields lay a socialist attack top name in the business including Olivier, Gielgud, Guinness, always an exciting event; and on the hereditary principle. After success at Nottingham and Ashcroft, Dench and McKellen. running through all his work was a three-month West End run, the play was filmed in 1972 As a dramatist, Barnes kept on plugging away with comical- a passionate belief that a joke can with Peter O’Toole turning in a vintage performance as the historical epics. Sunset And Glories, about the saintly Pope be an instrument of change rather a demented earl. Celestine IV who was voted out of office, played at the diversion from reality. Following The Ruling Class, Barnes wrote a series of plays West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1990. Dreaming, set during the Barnes was born in Bow, London, but offering nightmare visions of climactic moments from wars of the roses, surfaced briefly in the West End in 1999. his real inheritance was coastal rather history. Leonardo’s Last Supper (1969) showed the great And Jubilee, dealing with David Garrick’s disaster-strewn than Cockney. “I grew up,” he wrote, “in a artist, prematurely declared dead, achieving Lazarus-like Shakespearean celebration, opened at Stratford’s Swan in downmarket seaside resort on the east coast resurrection in a filthy charnel-house. The Bewitched, 2001 and exhibited a ramshackle gaiety: it also reminded us where my parents worked in amusement arcades produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974, was that Barnes’s real debt was always to Ben Jonson rather than on the pier and later owned two cafés on the seafront, about the Spanish state’s attempt to produce a rightful heir to Shakespeare whom he once dubbed a “massive snob”. along with the cockles and whelks stalls, the deckchairs, to the imbecilic and impotent Philip IV. Most daringly of all Even if structure wasn’t his strong point, Barnes was a Punch and Judy booths and artists who would draw, with a Laughter! seen at the Royal Court in 1978, was a double-bill dramatist of extraordinary vision who deserved better pointed stick, elegant pictures in the wet sand.” that moved from the world of Ivan the Terrible to that of treatment than he received at the hands of the theatrical Auschwitz and that exposed the mind-numbing bureaucracy That background may explain the carnivalesque element establishment. His prolific creativity was also accompanied that sustained the concentration camps. Only a Jewish Peter Barnes in his work. But Barnes was also a keen student of history. by bountiful fertility in his private life. He became a father at writer, like Barnes, could conceivably have treated Auschwitz After education at Stroud Grammar School, RAF national 69 when his second wife, Christie, gave birth to a daughter, as a source of black humour. service and a spell working for the London County Council, followed by triplets two years later. With characteristic he became something out of an autodidact. He not only Even though Barnes was never exactly fashionable, the energy, Barnes turned the experience of late-life fatherhood took a correspondence course in theology but clocked RSC stayed loyal to him and, in 1985, produced Red Noses: into a screenplay, Babies, due to be filmed for television. in daily at the British Museum Reading Room which arguably his best play and winner of an Olivier award. It dealt But one hopes posterity will also re-examine the inordinate became his study-centre and office. It still seems a slightly with a sprightly priest, played by Antony Sher, who toured comic epics that were Barnes’s theatrical legacy. incongruous source for plays bursting with songs, dances the plague-stricken areas of 14th-century France with a This original obituary article by Michael Billington was published and comic routines; and one cannot help wondering if fraternity of fools known as God’s Zanies. Like all of Barnes’s in The Guardian, Monday 5th July, 2004. the famous ceiling ever echoed to the sound of Barnes’s best work, it celebrated the subversive power of laughter. irreverent laughter. “I tried to lift creation from bondage with mirth,” says the hero; and that could equally well stand as Barnes’s own 54 testament. 55 July Matinée 2pm Evening 8pm Matinée 2pm Evening 8pm Matinée 2pm Evening 8pm SAT 1 High Society People FRI 11 Mary Rose THU 21 Europe The Ruling Class

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The National Library of Creative Scotland lists Europe as one of the 12 key Scottish plays Cast Team between 1970-2010 Morocco ...... Cameron Johnson DIRECTOR ‘If I had my time again, John Durnin I would call the play Fret ...... Alan Steele Scotland. That border town could just as easily Adele ...... Rebecca Elise SET & COSTUME DESIGNER be Motherwell’ Sava ...... Mark Faith - David Greig Becky Minto Katia ...... Joanna Lucas This play has been translated LIGHTING DESIGNER into Swedish, French, Berlin ...... Jack Wharrier Wayne Dowdeswell German, Italian, Spanish and Russian! Horse ...... Ewan Petrie FIGHT DIRECTOR Billy ...... Alan Mirren Raymond Short

STAGE MANAGER Acts Kay Hesford DEPUTY STAGE The action takes place in and around the railway station in a MANAGER (BOOK) Europe was first border town in a country somewhere in the heart of Europe. Maggi Lindsay performed at the Traverse There will be one interval of 20 minutes between Act 1 and Theatre, Edinburgh, on 21 October 1994. Act 2. DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER (FLOOR) Europe is sponsored by the Kuenssberg Charitable Foundation. Marianne Forde

58 59 EUROPE Director's Notes

It was in the Autumn of 2015, when our production of David “ The design for Europe Greig’s Pyrenees was being so enthusiastically greeted by needed to be a audiences and critics alike, that I first began to think about composite creation, programming Europe. Whilst Pyrenees - a mysterious, without any big physical magical play about identity, nationality and belonging, infused with the history of the old Europe - was in the changes of scene. All of repertoire, the news was full of the horrors of the migrant the different locations, crisis in the new Europe. Day after day, we were greeted including the station with stories of the latest drowning in the Mediterranean, main hall/waiting shown images of hundreds of thousands of people displaced room, Fret’s office, the by conflict, fleeing political oppression and economic station roof and the collapse, desperate to find a place of safety where they could try to start again. And, on the other side, we became town square, need to aware of those who would do anything to stop the influx of exist within the overall “foreigners”. stage environment or,

What struck me at the time was that the same playwright like the Calypso bar, who had created Pyrenees had already written a play that be simply and quickly spoke eloquently about this very chaos and misery: Europe, created within it so as to a story of the failure of globalisation, of borders collapsing, allow for the flow of the of resentment towards the outsider, and of the revival of storytelling. extreme right-wing ideologies. What was inexpressibly sad, however, was the fact that Greig had written Europe in 1994, The set needs to give in the shadow of the Bosnian war - yet over 20 years later, a sense of a history it seemed an even more astute depiction of the state of that has resulted in contemporary Europe. a particular series of Greig’s story of a group of people trapped in a nameless architectures and border town somewhere in central Europe has, shockingly, styles so as to give become a mirror for so many of our current preoccupations: the audience a sense the grievances of those who, left dispossessed by economic of place. It needs to inequality and political disconnection, voted for Brexit; the rise of xenophobic, anti-immigrant populist politics; the be both present day hardening of attitudes towards those who have suffered the and 1994, so that the horrors of civil conflict. memory of the Bosnian

In 2017, Grieg’s 23-year-old play has become an urgent war can resonate warning from history about a fate that could befall us all against the current

Cameron if we do not challenge the direction of travel that so many refugee crisis.” European countries seem intent upon pursuing. Johnson Becky Minto and Ewan Petrie in rehearsal John Durnin, Director SET & COSTUME DESIGNER 61 EUROPE Extraordinarily Prescient by Joyce McMillan

There are doubtless many plays already written - and many and then the squandering of that hope in a mess of brutal more to come - about the great refugee crisis that began to economic exploitation that left too many feeling abandoned break over Europe in 2014 and 2015, as the war in Syria drove and bereft. “Scotland, the UK, Europe and the world have millions to flee from their homes. Of all the traumatic events all felt strange and unfamiliar over the last two years,” he in human history, though, there is none that carries more said this spring, launching his second Lyceum season. “Old profound echoes, up and down the ages, than this spectacle certainties are fading. New questions are taking their place. of people on the move, displaced by war, famine, or inter- There is a crying need for solidarity, empathy, joy, and communal violence; and David Greig’s 1994 play Europe finding ourselves in the lives of others.” belongs to the time following the collapse of communism If David Greig is a playwright with a mission, though, the in eastern Europe, when refugees from the war in former range of his work remains dazzling, featuring more than Yugoslavia began to move across the continent, seeking forty plays and adaptations, from the current Broadway sanctuary in cities from Prague to Glasgow, and beyond. smash-hit musical version of Charlie And The Chocolate The play is set in and around a railway station somewhere in Factory, to the National Theatre of Scotland’s international central Europe, where a middle aged man and his daughter pub-theatre sensation The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia wait for a train that will never come; the railway system Hart, and big, well-made plays like Pyrenees and Outlying has collapsed, along with the political system, and the old Islands, both seen at Pitlochry in the last decade; even station master can do nothing but watch as express trains plays like Europe, built around the most serious of themes, thunder past from capital to capital, while his old station are written with a lightness of touch that makes plenty of begins to fall apart. The town is under stress, jobs are scarce, room for poetry, laughter, and a good measure of human the young people are restless; and the last thing anyone absurdity and kindness. needs - or so it seems - is a pair of strangers living at the What is likely to strike audiences most strongly about station, inspiring a familiar mix of guilt, fear and anger with Europe, though, is its extraordinary prescience. Written by their silent demand for help and humanity. a 25-year-old playwright more than two decades ago, at Born in Edinburgh in 1969, and brought up mainly in Nigeria, what should have been a relatively hopeful time in Europe’s where his father worked in the oil industry, David Greig has history, it anticipates with an almost uncanny insight all the established himself, over the last 25 years, not only as the problems that stalk our continent today, from the bitterness undisputed leader of the current generation of Scottish and hatred generated by unemployment and too-rapid playwrights, but as an internationally-recognised writer, economic change, to the struggles with identity, and with mentor and voice for playwrights everywhere. In September the limits of compassion in a globalised world, that are now 2015 - just as his 2005 play, Pyrenees, opened here at the daily stuff of our politics. Yet if the play carries a sense Pitlochry - he was named as the new artistic director of the of foreboding, it also contains beauty, joy, conviviality Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, the first playwright to lead and hope; the very qualities that David Greig is striving to one of Scotland’s major theatres in two generations; and like embody in Scottish theatre today - and the qualities that his work as a writer, his passionate commitment to making have always been present in his work, ever since he first the Lyceum a centre for public debate and understanding, emerged onto the scene 25 years ago, and began, with plays David Greig Photo in these troubled and divisive times, marks him out as a like Europe, to make his inimitable mark. by K. Ribbe key theatre-maker of the generation that grew up with the Joyce McMillan is theatre critic of The Scotsman. She has fall of the Berlin Wall, and who lived through both the age also been a freelance journalist, based in Edinburgh, 62 of hope that followed the coming of a new united Europe, for more than 25 years. 63 Ensemble ABSURD PERSON THE RULING HIGH SOCIETY MARY ROSE PEOPLE EUROPE Matrix SINGULAR CLASS Irene Lady Joanna* Mrs. Morland* Iris Allan The Leon Sinden Awards Claire Gurney* Sara Clark Dinah Lord* Mary Rose Gofer* Vote for the Best Actor & Actress in a Downie Dorothy Valerie Margaret Lord* Mrs. Otery* Supporting Role in the 23rd Leon Sinden Awards! Cutko Stacpoole Mrs. Piggot Rebecca Liz Imbrie* Adele Greg Powrie Leon Sinden Gemma McElhinney Elise -Jones* in Thark, 2016 in GamePlan, 2016 Bishop Mark Uncle Willie* Ralph Lumsden Sava Faith Lampton*

Harry Morland Elliot Samuel* Dr. Herdman* Blake/Simon Fitzpatrick Blake

Serena Eva* Brit* Jane Hopcroft Giacomini

Cameron Johnson Mike Connor* Bruce* Morocco

Dougal Ronald Sir Charles Lee Seth Lord Theodore Brewster-Wright Gurney Joanna Emma* Grace Shelley* Katia Lucas

Helen Tracy Lord Louise* Eva Jackson Mallon These Awards, unique to PFT, continue to be a very popular In addition, according to Leon’s Chester* Mr. Morland* Bishop* Daniel Tucker* way for our audiences to acknowledge and appreciate own rules, no one can win Ian Marr outstanding contributions by members of the PFT the Award more than twice! Alan George Geoffrey ensemble. Mr. Cameron* Billy Mirren The winners are Kittredge* Jackson The only criteria for a nomination announced and presented Ewan Dinsdale for the Leon Sinden Award are with their awards on Stanley* Nigel* Horse Petrie Gurney* that the performance must be stage at the end of the Marion in a Supporting rather than a final performance of the Margaret Mavis* June Stacpoole Mrs. Treadwell* Preece Brewster-Wright Leading Role: such roles are Season, which this year will indicated by a * against the be on Saturday 14th October, C.K. Dexter Kelso Truscott Alex Scott Bevan* Sidney Hopcroft actor’s name in the cast list 8pm. Fairley Haven QC* in the show programme. Alan Steele J.M. Barrie Les* McKyle* Fret

Jack Jack - 14th Earl Freddie* Colin* Wharrier of Gurney 64 65 Ensemble 2017

From left to right: Jack Wharrier, Ian Marr, Alan Steele, Rebecca Elise, Helen Mallon, Irene Allan, Ewan Petrie, Joanne Lucas, Serena Giacomini, Mark Faith, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Sara Clark Downie, Dougal Lee, Cameron Johnson, Valerie Cutko, Alan Mirren , Margaret Preece, Alex Scott Fairley Of The Shrew, Pygmalion, UK tours/repertory work having recently appeared in Girls (The Drill Hall); Sally Bowles Theatre Frankfurt), I Will Be Baltamire, Bear On A Chain and includes: Copacabana, The Wind staged readings, including The in Cabaret (UK tour) and Over The EVERYTHING (New International Meeting Matthew (all for Òran In The Willows, The Voyage Of Troublesome Reign Of King John Rainbow (National tour). Encounter), Nugget in Equus Mór, Glasgow). The Dawn Treader, and Great and The Lover’s Melancholy. (Pomegranate Theatre), Jacob Ensemble Biographies 8 Cameron Johnson Expectations (Theatre Clwyd); Elliot is thrilled to be working at Marley in A Christmas Carol and TV and Film credits include: Dollar American Princesses Television credits include: The South Pacific and Guys And Pitlochry Festival Theatre for the 1st Summer Season The Narrator in Romeo And Juliet 1 Irene Allan Behind Closed Doors (BBC), Season 2 (ITV3), Sleeping Beauty Robinsons and Material Girl Dolls (Aberystwyth Arts); Curse first time. Cameron is originally from (Box Clever Theatre). 3rd Summer Season Players (Scottish Screen), (Cumbernauld Theatre), Angelica for the BBC and the BAFTA Of The Baskervilles (Belgrade Toronto but has lived in London Irene trained at Queen Margaret Hysteria (Scottish Screen) and 7 Serena Giacomini Cameron also masquerades as a in The Hypochondriac (Royal award-winning online series Theatre, Coventry); Hanging for much of his life. As a result, College, Edinburgh. Since then Bulb (UK Film Council/Scottish live vocal looping artist and self- Conservatoire of Scotland) and KateModern. The President (Traverse Theatre, 1st Summer Season he lost the Canadian twang long she has worked around the Screen/GMAC-Scottish BAFTA taught bassist. Basically, he just Ruby in 13 (Royal Conservatoire Edinburgh); Just Like Home Originally from Devon, Serena ago and feels like a bit of a fraud. UK with companies, including Radio credits include: Tales Of Award Winner for New Talent). likes to make weird noises. of Scotland). (King’s Head, London); The trained at The Italia Conti London has been kind to him, National Theatre of Scotland, The City, The Midnight Cry Of The Radio credits include: Secure Blood Knot in Frankfurt and A Academy of Theatre Arts. National Theatre (London), Royal 3 Valerie Cutko Deathbird and The Gobetweenies (BBC Radio 4), The Penalty (BBC Christmas Carol in Stockholm. (all for BBC). Credits include: Maria Elena in Lyceum Theatre (Edinburgh), 1st Summer Season Radio Scotland) and The Realm Belgrade Theatre (Coventry), Pantomimes include Jack And The Buddy Holly Story (West End Valerie is delighted to be making 4 Rebecca Elise Of The Census (BBC Radio 4). Dogstar Theatre (Inverness), The Beanstalk and Sleeping and Royal Albert Hall); The Moll her Pitlochry Festival Theatre 1st Summer Season Communicado Theatre 5 Mark Faith Beauty. in Accomplice (Menier Chocolate début, returning to Scotland (Edinburgh), BBC and Channel 4. Born in Edinburgh, Rebecca 1st Summer Season Factory); Mallory Kingsley in after playing in the Scottish TV credits: Crossroads, Laura And Her more recent work includes trained at East 15 Acting School City Of Angels; Alice’s Sister in première of Alan Ayckbourn’s Mark was born in Leeds and Disorder, The Hutton Enquiry, The Wicked Stepmother at the in London. On graduating, she Alice In Wonderland (English Comic Potential at the Byre moved to South Africa when Empire Of The Word, The Queen’s Citizens Theatre (Glasgow) and was chosen by Kevin Spacey to National Ballet); Maleficent in Theatre, St Andrews. he was very young with his Party In The Park 2006 and join a small group of actors in Sleeping Beauty (Princes Hall); a Scottish tour of The Course Of family. In South Africa, he various TV commercials. True Love for Fire Exit. Her West End roles include the first year of his Old Vic New Tiffany inSex Cells (Riverside trained and began his acting though, and has proven to be Fräulein Kost in Cabaret, Madame Voices company. Radio credits include: the Studios); Lilly Star in Best Of 9 Dougal Lee Her first Summer Season at career. Since returning to the the perfect setting for a career Egorova in Beautiful And Damned Rainbow Nation series for Friends (Landor Theatre); Wicked 16th Summer Season Pitlochry Festival Theatre was pretending to be someone he’s and The Queen of Transylvania in Radio 4. Queen in Snow White (Princes Replete with eudaemonia at in 2009, with roles in The Prime not. My Fair Lady (National Theatre, Hall); Cinderella (Theatre Royal, another return to the PFT fold, Of Miss Jean Brodie, What Every This is Mark’s first appearance at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Winchester); Sharon in Girls Night Although he has often said that this Season will bring Dougal’s Woman Knows and The Life Of Pitlochry Festival Theatre. the BBC Proms at the Royal (UK tour); Cinderella (Princes he couldn’t permanently live tally of productions on this Stuff. She returned again in 2010 Albert Hall). She played Madame 6 Elliot Fitzpatrick Hall); Dorothy in The Wizard Of anywhere but London, having a stage to four score and ten; and for Pitlochry’s first Christmas Giry in The Phantom Of The 1st Summer Season Oz (Theatre Royal, Winchester); home-away-from-home in the sincerely hopes that this will not show, Cinderella, and then again Opera (UK Tour), Marlene Dietrich Elliot was born in High Wycombe, Dee Dee in Nobody’s Perfect Scottish Highlands ain’t so bad prove to be his allotted span! for the 2013 Summer Season, in Piaf and Emma Goldman in Buckinghamshire and trained at (English Theatre of Hamburg); – especially when he gets to do Many thanks to everyone for playing in Hello, Dolly!, A Chorus Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre), Birmingham School of Acting. Olivia in Twelfth Night (Coram great work with great people. allowing him back. Of Disapproval, Present Laughter Mrs Mullin in Carousel (Arcola Fields); Belle in Beauty And The and Lady Windermere’s Fan. Theatre credits include: Hooray UK, Mark’s work has included Previous credits include: Horrible He trained at LAMDA and Roles have heretofore swithered Theatre) and Ninotchka in Silk Beast (UK Tour); Juliet in Romeo She’s chuffed to bits to be back For All Kinds Of Things (Assembly West End productions of Mary Histories (Birmingham Stage graduated in 2013. Credits while between the saintly: Thomas Stockings in a Sadler’s Wells And Juliet (National Tour); Lady and is looking forward to many a Rooms/Edinburgh Festival), Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Company/UK Tour), Seussical training include: Leontes in The More in A Man For All Seasons; concert staging. She reprised McDuff/Witch in Macbeth (UK hike up Ben-y-Vrackie! Chris Guthrie in Sunset Song (Sell The Phantom Of The Opera (Arts Theatre and Asia tour), Winter’s Tale, Patterson in The the diabolical Mr Bolfry; the this role with an American cast Tour); Wolf/Ensemble and Susan A Door/UK No 1 tour), Dare To (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Dirty That Is All You Need To Know Prisoner’s Dilemma and Stine in morally reformed Gradgrind 2 Sara Clark Downie in Manhattan. She also played on several occasions in The Lion, Care (Stellar Quines), You Cannot Dancing (Piccadilly Theatre); (UK and China tour), A Christmas City Of Angels. in Hard Times; the morally Rafaella in Grand Hotel at the The Witch And The Wardrobe 1st Summer Season Go Forward From Where You Fame (Victoria Palace); Saturday Carol (Middle Temple Hall), The reformable Will Dearth in Dear Southwark Playhouse – the role (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Professional credits include: Big Sara is originally from Forres, Are Right Now (Paines Plough), Night Fever (Apollo Victoria); Mummy (Coventry Belgrade) Brutus; the in-need-of-moral- she took over in Tommy Tune’s Mrs Jenkins in The Witches (UK Moe in Five Guys Named Moe Morayshire, and is a recent Young Pretender (Hull Truck The Lion, The Witch And The and As You Like It (The Lord reform Dr Wicksteed in Habeas original Broadway production. Tour); Narrator in Return To The (Underbelly Festival Square, graduate of the Royal Theatre/Nabokov), I, Tommy (Ian Wardrobe (Peacock Theatre); and Chamberlain’s Men). Corpus; the morally dubious Forbidden Planet (The Hawth); Edinburgh), Big Jule in Guys And Conservatoire of Scotland. Sara’s Film credits include: Pattison/Red Aye Productions/ Lady Windermere’s Fan and The Anthony Blunt in A Question Elliot is a frequent collaborator Ada Clare in Bleak House (Bridge Dolls (UK tour & Phoenix Theatre), credits include Rosie in Lovesick Les Misérables and The Phantom Gilded Balloon/Edinburgh Admirable Crichton (Haymarket Of Attribution; and the morally with Shakespeare’s Globe, Lane Theatre); Hayley in Essex Memphis in The Life (English (Netflix), Kick Kennedy in Million Of The Opera. Festival), Divided, The Taming Theatre).

68 69 compromised Jack McCracken in included running masterclasses The Uncertainty Files (Paines in Ladies Night, Croker in Wait Taming Of The Shrew and in their (Regal Theatre, Bathgate) and was the voice of Minnie Driver in Recent credits include UK A Small Family Business. and workshops for young Plough), Be Near Me (NTS/ Until Dark, Clive in See How They productions of Macbeth, Oliver Sleeping Beauty (Alhambra Joel Schumacher’s film version of tours of Round The Horne, The people. Theatre with The Globe Donmar Warehouse), 365 (NTS/ Run!, Richard Greatham in Hay Twist and Half Broke Horses. Theatre, Dunfermline). The Phantom Of The Opera. As Shakespeare Revue, and Stiles He’s particularly looking forward Players includes: Romeo And Lyric Hammersmith), Cockroach Fever (Newpalm Productions), much at home as a comedy actor and Drewe’s The Three Little to this year’s batch of shows, He has performed in several Workshops: Alice By Heart Juliet, Macbeth, The Tempest, (Traverse/NTS), Peter Pan Mr Darling/Captain Hook in Peter as a dramatic operatic singer, Pigs; Blood Brothers (Phoenix, having always enjoyed the music productions for the Summer (National Theatre, London). Desperate Glory and What The (Citizens Theatre), The Wolves Pan, Case in Broken Glass and she played Jean in the UK tour London); Flahooley! and Mexican of Cole Porter and the writing of Theatres in Frinton and Dickens! In The Walls (Improbable/NTS- Troughton in Run For Your Wife Radio credits: Akiha Den Den of Victoria Wood’s Dinner Ladies Hayride (Sadler’s Wells); Enjoy Bennett and Barnes. The plays Southwold, including the role Broadway Tour), Lucky Lady (Chelmsford Civic) and Doctor (WMIB Productions). for Comedy Productions Ltd. She (York Theatre Royal); A Capital of Alan Ayckbourn are both a Television credits include Da of Tom in Round And Round (Tron Theatre), Tutti Frutti Sterling in The Ghost Train (Ian challenge and a joy to an actor, Vinci’s Demons (Fox) and audio The Garden, Andy in The Star Ewan is delighted to be making (NTS), Hansel And Gretel (Arches Dickens Tour). Spangled Girl, Jack in Charley’s his début at Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and The Crucible (NTS/ Television credits include: Aunt, Clifford in Deathtrap and Theatre for the 2017 Summer TAG). Downton Abbey (ITV), Waking played in the one-man musical Season. TV and Film credits include: The Dead (BBC), Night And Day Billy Bishop Goes To War. He is For more information about Rillington Place (BBC), Senseless and Blue Murder (Granada TV). currently involved in the early Ewan and his career, please visit (Plum Films/Matador), My Zinc stages of the new Heathcote Ian has also co-written, directed www.ewanpetrie.com. Bed (HBO/Rainmark Films), Williams play Killing Kit, in the and appeared in over 25 Casualty (BBC) and Hollyoaks lead role of Christopher Marlowe. 15 Margaret Preece pantomimes and this year will (Channel 4). 2nd Summer Season be playing Dame at The Corn 14 Ewan Petrie is also an experienced cabaret Affair (Vienna’s English Theatre); Margaret was born in Solihull 12 Ian Marr Exchange Theatre, King’s Lynn. 1st Summer Season and recording artist and released Doctor Faustus (Creation and it will be fascinating to see work includes Peace In Our Time and trained at The Royal 1st Summer Season her album, Isn’t It Romantic?, Theatre, Oxford); Pool (Brockley how this Absurd Person Singular (Digital Drama). 13 Alan Mirren Ewan trained at Queen Margaret Conservatoire of Scotland. She celebrating the music of Richard Jack Theatre); The Tempest compares to its last production Ian was born in Oldham, 2nd Summer Season University and the Royal is an acclaimed international This is Joanna’s Pitlochry Festival Rodgers and first performed as (Winchester Theatre Royal); Alice here (in 2002) in which Dougal Lancashire, and trained at Rose Academy of Music. operatic and musical theatre Theatre début and she is thrilled Originally from Paisley, Alan is a cabaret at the Metropolitan In Wonderland, A Midsummer played Geoffrey. It’s daunting, Bruford College. singer and actor. to be a part of the Summer delighted to return for a second Theatre credits include: One Room, New York. Night’s Dream, Two Gentlemen but an honour, to be stepping Season! Theatre credits include: Season at Pitlochry Festival Thinks Of It All As A Dream She has played numerous leading Of Verona and The Merry into one of the late Martyn She played in the PFT Summer Gregg/Doctor in Shadowlands Theatre, having been in the 2015 and The Angel And The Manse and diverse operatic roles with Wives Of Windsor (Guildford James’ roles as Ronald. 11 Helen Mallon Season in 2015 (her main role (Birdsong Productions Tour), PC company for productions of A (A Play, A Pie and A Pint), The all the major opera companies Shakespeare Company); The 2nd Summer Season being Lady Bracknell in The 10 Joanna Lucas MacDonald/Mrs Tromleyton in Little Night Music, Home And Pillowman (ACT Aberdeen), in the UK and abroad, working Way To Keep Him (Artifice); and Importance Of Being Earnest) Helen was born in Glasgow The Ladykillers (Pitlochry Festival Beauty and The Lady In The Van. Romeo And Juliet (Bard in the with conductors and directors of Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin and 1st Summer Season and in 2016 toured Dubai and and trained at the Royal Theatre), Mr Kirkby in That Day Last summer found him working Botanics/Scottish tour), Not international acclaim. She starred Cinderella (Millfield Theatre). Joanna was born in Canterbury, China with The Sound Of Conservatoire of Scotland. We Sang (written and directed by for Bard in the Botanics, where About Heroes and Never Land in London’s West End (as Carlotta Kent. She trained at Drama Victoria Wood, Manchester Opera he played Aufidius in Coriolanus Music (Mother Abbess) and an His German-language stage Studio London. For Pitlochry Festival Theatre: House), Fox in The Madness and Macduff inMacbeth , and he American production of My Fair credits include Was Ihr Wollt and Scrooge!, Miracle On 34th Street, Theatre credits include: Napoleon Of George III (Original Theatre also recently took on the role Lady (Mrs Higgins), followed by Romeo Und Julia (Open House, The Admirable Crichton, Whisky Blown Apart (Arcola Theatre), Company Tour), Mark in Taking of Benedick in Much Ado About a return to Pitlochry to play Mrs Vienna). As a puppeteer, he Kisses and Passing Places. Beauty And The Beast (Imagine Steps (Devonshire Park Theatre), Nothing for Vienna’s English Flint in Noël Coward’s This Happy worked on Midnight (Peacock, Theatre), Dick Whittington (RCT Other Theatre credits: Cuttin’ Lieutenant Brannigan in Guys Theatre. Other classical roles Breed (also in Guildford). London) and Monstersaurus (UK A Rug (Citizens Theatre), Tour) and has toured the USA Theatres), Holiday Humour And Dolls (Leicester Haymarket), include Bosola in The Duchess Of 16 Alex Scott Fairley Milk (Traverse Theatre), The with The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s (Shook Up Shakespeare) and Garry in Noises Off, Pierre in Piaf, Malfi, Giovanni in ‘Tis Pity She’s 2nd Summer Season One Great Garden (Theatre Walt Disney Project (Traverse Kevin in Privates On Parade, Doug A Whore and title roles in Hamlet Child, Room On The Broom and Alex’s family is from Surrey and Merchants). Theatre), Secrets (NTS/Òran in Me Mam Sez, Dad in East and and Don Juan for various UK Pigeon Party! His translation Seattle. He studied English at Mór), Taking Over The Asylum Mowbray in Richard II (Oldham companies. (Eden Court Theatre, Inverness/ work for the stage includes Der Joanna has also worked in The Phantom Of The Opera (Royal Lyceum/Citizens Theatre), Jesus College, Oxford. He has Grüffelo for Junges Theater, Coliseum), Ernest Beevers Scottish tour), And I Ran With and The Mother Abbess in The extensively with The Globe Alan is a regular performer been seen at Pitlochry Festival Roman Bridge (NTS/Citizens in Time And The Conways The Gang (Edinburgh Fringe Bonn. Players, touring productions to with the international touring Sound Of Music for Andrew Lloyd Theatre), Lettice And Lovage Theatre before in A Chorus of (Basingstoke Haymarket), Wally Festival), Popular (Vienna’s Webber) and with Sir Peter Hall He genuinely could not be more young audiences across London company TNT, travelling all over Disapproval, Lady Windermere’s (Watermill Theatre), The Good in Last Of The Summer Wine English Theatre), Snow White and the Home Counties. This the world as Petruchio in The at the Royal National Theatre delighted to return to Pitlochry! Soldier (Theatre Royal Bath), Fan and Hello, Dolly! (Jordan Productions Tour), Gavin (ACT Aberdeen), Mother Goose and at Epidaurus (Bacchai). She 70 71 17 Alan Steele 18 Jack Wharrier deeply involved with the jazz and Other recent theatre credits Idlewild; Admiral Fallow; North After graduating, Eoin worked enjoys life as a busy independent 5th Summer Season 1st Summer Season folk scene as well as an educator include: TONIGHT: From The West Atlantic Oscillation; Roddy Hart on UK tours and productions music teacher. He’s also the Musicians’ at the Royal Conservatoire End (Usher Hall, Glasgow Royal And The Lonesome Fire; The of various musicals, including Musical Director of the NHS Fife Alan has worked extensively for Jack hails from Northumberland Scotland. Concert Hall), A Night At The Amphetameanies; God Help The Producers UK tour in 2015 Staff Choir and the accompanist Scottish theatres, including the and studied History at the Biographies Movies (The Glamis Prom), Dick The Girl; The Mike And Ruthy and White Christmas (2015) for the Fair City Singers. Royal Lyceum, Citizens Theatre University of Nottingham before With two CDs as band leader and McWhittington (Perth Concert Band; Bare Bones; My Latest and Perth Theatre. training as an actor at the Bristol 19 Philip Alexander at least 2 dozen as a side man, Hall), High School Musical (SECC Novel; Kettle Of Kites; How To Old Vic Theatre School. Reeds /Woodwind there is no sign of slowing him Theatre work includes: Dracula Clyde Auditorium) and Legally Swim; and Turning Plates. With down – except for his salt and (Courtyard, Hereford); Pilate His credits include Marc Antony Philip was born in Ystradgynlais, Blonde (Whitehall Theatre). some of these groups, Tom has pepper. and Backstage At The Pussycat in Julius Caesar (Guildford South Wales and studied at had the opportunity to play 22 Tom Smith Club (The Arches, Glasgow); 54% Shakespeare Company), Trinity College of Music, London. 21 Pete Murch at many of the UK’s leading Acrylic (Firebrand); four Seasons Charles Surface in The School Trombone/Euphonium Theatre credits include West End Kit/Percussion festivals including T In The Park, at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, For Scandal, Paris in Romeo Tom studied Performing at the productions of Chicago, Annie, Pete is delighted to be returning Celtic Connections, Cambridge including parts in Taking Sides, And Juliet, Orlando in As You Royal Scottish Academy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss to Pitlochry Festival Theatre for Folk Festival, The Proms, The Dr Angelus and Good Things (the Like It and Valentine in Arcadia Music and Drama (now Royal Saigon, Crazy For You, Kiss Me, High Society following his recent Commonwealth Games, Madness latter winning him a Leon Sinden (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Conservatoire of Scotland) and in House of Fun Weekender, and Scrooge! (2016) at Pitlochry Kate, Guys And Dolls, Sunset involvement with Carousel, It’s Previous theatre credits: Dick Award); A Taste Of Honey and Factory), Ford in The Merry 2010 received a Master’s degree Wickerman, Belladrum, Eden, Festival Theatre. He is also Boulevard, On The Town, Beauty A Wonderful Life and Whisky McWhittington, Beauty And with distinction. During his time Electric Fields, Doune The Rabbit currently the professional And The Beast, Ziegfeld and Kisses. The Beast, Sleeping Beauty, there, Tom played with several of Hole and Knockengorroch. conductor of Brass Band Sachsen Oliver! Cinderella, Mother Goose (Perth); His musical career began with the college’s prestigious groups, in Germany and teaches brass at Other theatre credits: The 23 Eoin Tonner Parade (Apex Productions); two scholarships towards was a member of the National the High School of Dundee. Judy (Wizard Productions); Tempest and The Winter's his studies of Timpani and Youth Orchestra of Scotland and Trumpet/Flugelhorn I do! I do! (Baudelaire Tale (Royal National Theatre), Percussion at the Royal won the Governors’ Recital Prize Eoin is a native of Dundee and 24 Stuart Watson Productions); A Christmas The Comedy Of Errors (RSC), Conservatoire of Scotland, and a for Brass along with the Prize for began learning the trumpet at Keyboards Carol (Dundee Rep); Sleeping Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Gypsy place at the prestigious Berklee Excellence in Brass. an early age. While at school, This is Stuart’s sixth Season at Beauty (Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy); and Sunshine On Leith (Dundee College Of Music in Boston, USA. Eoin received a scholarship to Pitlochry Festival Theatre. He has His professional experience Sleeping Beauty, Secret Garden, Rep), Oliver! (Perth Theatre), attend the Royal Conservatoire previously been responsible for Pete enjoys a varied musical includes orchestral, More Grimm Tales, Parking Lot In The Crucible (National Theatre Wives Of Windsor (National Honk! (Byre Theatre, St. of Scotland Juniors and won the the musical direction of Whisky career and is known for his contemporary, commercial, Pittsburgh and Into The Woods Scotland); and Hamlet (Rapture). Tour), Jimmy Porter in Look Andrews), White Christmas, It’s Gilbert Innes prize for brass on Kisses, Little Shop Of Horrors, versatility in the pit, on stage and theatre and solo work. He has (Byre, St. Andrews). Back In Anger (Reading Rep), A Wonderful Life, Whisky Kisses, three occasions. Eoin was also My Fair Lady, Kiss Me, Kate and He has also toured the Highlands in the studio. He has worked on appeared as guest principal Macbeth, Hamlet and Romeo Carousel and Scrooge! (Pitlochry the Principal cornet of both the Whisky Galore – A Musical! He and Islands in many shows over 60 theatrical productions bass trombone with many 25 Mark Wilson And Juliet (Young Shakespeare Festival Theatre). National Youth Brass Band of was also the Composer and including Art and The Weir and and tours across the UK and of Scotland’s and Ireland’s Violin Company), All Creatures Great Scotland and the European Youth Musical Director for PFT’s two played title roles in Macbeth He is a woodwind instructor for Europe. Recent session work professional orchestras, Mark studied violin performance And Small (Durham Gala Brass Band. pantomimes: Sleeping Beauty and Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde (Mull Perth and Kinross Council where includes recording with BBC including the BBC SSO, RSNO, at both the RCS (then the Theatre), The Family (Old Vic and and Cinderella. Theatre). He played Gil Martin/ he conducts the regional Wind Television and Radio; variety SCO, Scottish Opera Orchestra, In 2009, Eoin accepted a place to RSAMD) and the RAM. He Public Theatre, NYC), Cinderella The Devil in the highly acclaimed Orchestra and Big Band. show performances with Mica Ulster Orchestra, RTE Orchestra study for his bachelor of music Originally from Perth, Stuart co-founded the Solaris String (Salisbury Playhouse) and Sus production of Confessions Of A Paris, Christina Bianco and Ruthie and Scottish Ballet Orchestra. in trumpet and conducting graduated as a Tuba player from Quartet and the piano trio, (Splice Theatre). Jack also spent 20 Mario Caribe Justified Sinner (Rowan Tree) – a Henshall; and a sold-out show As a recording artist, he has at the Royal Conservatoire of the Royal Northern College of Trilogy, before becoming three days convincing a perfectly Double Bass role he reprised on BBC Radio 4. at Celtic Connections with his worked with Belle And Sebastian; Scotland and graduated in 2013. Music in Manchester and later concertmaster of the Orquestra innocent man that he had This will be the second Summer Most recently, Alan appeared in band, The Moth & The Mirror gained a Masters from the do Estado de Mato Grosso in committed a murder as part of Season at Pitlochry Festival The Angel And The Manse (Òran (Olive Grove Records). He is also University of St Andrews. After Brazil. He is now the leader of the Derren Brown: The Experiments Theatre that Mario has been Mór), Coriolanus (Bard In The one of the founding members some time working in education, flexible string ensemble, Afton (Objective/Channel 4). invited to join. Having been a Botanics), Democracy (Rapture of the band TONGUES, who have based first in London and then in Strings. regular player on the Winter Theatre) and Aladdin (The Byre, performed at music festivals Los Angeles, he returned home musicals, it’s a pleasure and an Mark has given solo St Andrews). across the UK, including T in the in 2009 to resume working as a honour to be asked back to the performances throughout Park and the Edinburgh Fringe freelance musician. When he’s TV Credits include: Taggart, River Theatre in the Hills. After 20 Britain and Brazil, specialising Festival, and have amassed over not working in theatre, Stuart City, and the title role of John in performing British music. years in Scotland, Mario is still 2 million plays online. Knox in the BBC’s The Sword And 72 The Cross. 73 A composer in his own right, continues to be so prolific. He has This year, his epic narrative for Indemnity, Lend Me A Tenor, To plays include: The Bewitched, 29 Richard Baron Home And Beauty, The Musical theatre credits range Mark has premièred the music written numerous plays and his voices, The Divide, will see its first Kill A Mockingbird, The Grapes Of Jubilee, The Candlemaker, Director Admirable Crichton, Passing from Richard Taylor's Whistle of various composers, including work has been translated into ever staging in a co-production Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, Laughter!, Red Noses (which won Places, A Chorus Of Disapproval, Down The Wind (Byre Theatre, Richard is a graduate of Neil Crossland and Barrington over 35 languages, is performed with the Edinbugh International Kiss Me, Kate, Little Shop Of an Olivier Award for Best Play), Lady Windermere's Fan, The 39 St Andrews), to a re-mount of St. Andrews University, Pheloung. He will première Steve on stage and television Festival and The Old Vic, directed Horrors, It's A Wonderful Life, Sunsets and Glories, Lunar Park Steps, Privates On Parade, See Glasgow Girls at the Citizens a former Scottish Arts Council Law’s Violin Concerto in Ayr throughout the world and has by Annabel Bolton; at the Miracle On 34th Street, White Eclipsis and Corpsing. How They Run!, The Prime Of Theatre (National Theatre Trainee Director at the Royal Baptist Church in June this year. won countless awards. Stephen Joseph he will direct a Christmas and Carousel. She has Miss Jean Brodie, Heartbreak of Scotland) and Flora The Barnes also worked on Lyceum, Edinburgh, and revival of his 1979 farce, Taking worked regularly at The Royal House, Arcadia, Taking Sides, Red Menace, Sweeney Todd, He recently performed the rarely Major successes include: several adaptations, including Associate Director of Dundee Steps and the première of his Lyceum, Dundee Rep and Perth The Flouers O’Edinburgh, Sunshine On Leith (Dundee Rep); heard Kenneth Leighton Violin Relatively Speaking, How The Wedekind’s Lulu plays (which Rep and Nottingham Playhouse. Theatre. , Concerto and has the distinction he co-directed); Jonson’s The Summer Lightning Kind Hearts Guys And Dolls (Royal Lyceum; He is currently Director of And Coronets, The Weir, Great Edinburgh); Sundowe (Eden of giving the Mato Grossense She has worked as an actor, Devil Is An Ass, The Alchemist, Productions for Firebrand Expectations, A Streetcar Named Court, Highland tour); Oliver! première of Vivaldi’s Four acting teacher, writer and and Feydeau’s Scenes From Theatre Company. Notable Desire, a CATS nominated (Perth Rep); Into The Woods, Seasons. director since she moved to A Marriage. In addition, he productions include: a CATS production of Man And The Secret Garden, Honk! (Byre Scotland from the USA over forty adapted Feydeau’s On Purge Mark enjoys performing in Award-winning production of Superman and the TMA Award- Theatre); Whisky Galore - A years ago. She is very proud to Bebe and Wedekind’s The Singer, recitals and shows. He has given Iron (Firebrand); three national winning Amadeus. Musical!, My Fair Lady, Little have been a founder of Stellar entitled the Frontiers Of Farce, chamber music concerts in major tours of The 39 Steps; a UK Shop of Horrors, Kiss Me, Kate, Quines Theatre Company. for the Old Vic. After staging venues throughout the UK and tour of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 30 Jon Beales Jonson’s Bartholomew’s Fair Hello, Dolly!, Whisky Kisses and has been broadcast on BBC After 15 years as Head of Acting (nominated for 4 Manchester Musical Director (Roundhouse, 1978) and co- A Little Night Music (PFT), as well Radios 3 and 4. He has played in latest play, A Brief History of at Queen Margaret University, Evening News Theatre Awards); This year Jon marks 25 years of Other Half Loves, Absurd Person directing Antonio (Nottingham as student musicals for Queen many acclaimed productions of Women. Lynn retired from full time Dear Brutus (Nottingham working in theatre as a musical Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Playhouse, 1978) from two plays Margaret University and the shows, including the TMA award- teaching to pursue her busy Playhouse); Travesties and director and composer. Chorus Of Disapproval and The Alan received the 2016 Oxford by Marston, he directed Brian Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. winning run of Sondheim’s freelance career. She teaches Laurel and Hardy (Royal Norman Conquests. In the past Literary Festival’s Honorary Friel’s Translations (Hampstead Most recently Jon was musical Past shows include: In My Sweeney Todd at the Dundee Acting and Accents at MGA Lyceum, Edinburgh); his CATS four years, there have been Fellowship and in recent years, he Theatre and Lyttleton, 1981). director and arranger for Father's Words, The Tempest, Rep Theatre. Mark was solo Musical Theatre Academy in Award-winning, TMA Award revivals of Season’s Greetings has been inducted into American His screenplay of Elizabeth von Pitlochry Festival Theatre's The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, violinist for the 2015 and 2016 Edinburgh and, though it's and Whatsonstage Award- and A Small Family Business at Theatre’s Hall of Fame, received Arnim’s novel Enchanted April production of Rodgers and The Elephant Man (Dundee Seasons at Pitlochry Festival hard to believe, she still loves nominated production of Look the National Theatre and in the the 2010 Critics’ Circle Award for was nominated for an Oscar. One Hammerstein's Carousel Rep); White Rose, Blackbird, Theatre, playing on Sondheim’s A teaching! Back In Anger starring David West End productions of Absent Services to the Arts and became of his last screenplays, Babies, a and John Bett's and Robert Iron (Firebrand); Laurel And Little Night Music, Irving Berlin’s Tennant (Theatre Royal, Bath); Friends, A Chorus Of Disapproval, the first British playwright to 28 Peter Barnes two-part drama for Granada was Pettigrew's adaptation of Para Hardy, Vanity Fair, Mother White Christmas and Rodgers and TMA Award-winning and Relatively Speaking and How The receive both Olivier and Tony inspired by the media attention Handy. and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Playwright Courage (Royal Lyceum); Other Half Loves. Special Lifetime Achievement around him having a daughter Peter Barnes (1931–2004) was an Damascus, Solemn Mass For Awards. He was knighted in 1997 and triplets in his late sixties In 2009, he retired as artistic Olivier Award-winning playwright A Full Moon, The Speculator director of the Stephen Joseph for services to the theatre. and screenwriter and the most In America, he is known for many (Traverse); Feelgood, Dear Brutus Creative (Nottingham Playhouse); The Theatre, a post he held for 37 27 Lynn Bains produced living playwright of the top audience blockbuster mini- Royal Shakespeare Company. Home-Made Child (Lung Ha Team years and where almost all his Accent Coach series including: Merlin, Arabian plays have been and continue The Ruling Class is his most Nights, Noah’s Ark, Leprechauns, Theatre Co.); and The Grapes Of Lynn has been accent coach to be first staged. Since 2005, famous play, which received Alice In Wonderland and A Wrath (7:84). Biographies for nearly every American play 29 30 31 he, with the SJT company, have critical success when it premièred Christmas Carol, a sharp contrast 31 Alan Bennett at Pitlochry Festival Theatre been regular visitors to the Brits- in 1968 at the Nottingham from his persona as a serious 26 Alan Ayckbourn for more than a quarter of a Playwright off-Broadway Festival at 59E59 Playhouse before transferring to black comedy playwright. Movies nominated productions of The Other recent productions century. Shows at PFT include: Alan Bennett has been one of Playwright Theaters, New York, where his the Piccadilly Theatre in the West include: Voices, Moon And The Glass Menagerie and Long Day’s include: Grounded and The Effect Arsenic And Old Lace, Death our leading dramatists since 2017 marks Alan’s 56th year as work always attracts uniformly End. The play was then made Stars and Easy Virtue. Journey Into Night at Dundee (Firebrand Theatre); a re-mount Of A Salesman, All My Sons, the success of Beyond The a theatre director and his 58th excellent reviews. It has received into a film in 1972, for which Rep. of A Christmas Carol in Ann On Golden Pond, Long Day’s He is survived by his widow Fringe in the 1960s. His Talking as a playwright. He has spent a Drama Desk nomination and Barnes wrote the screenplay, Arbor, Michigan (National Theatre Journey Into Night, A Streetcar Christie, a writer, and their four Richard’s Pitlochry productions Heads monologues have his life in theatre, rarely if ever twice been included in Time starring Peter O’Toole, who of Scotland); The Witches and Named Desire, Summer Is children, Leela and triplets Abby, include: Scrooge!, Damsels in become a modern-day classic, tempted by television or film, Magazine’s Top Ten Productions received an Oscar nomination for Midsummer (Dundee Rep) and Come, The Matchmaker, Double Nathan and Zach. Distress, Our Man In Havana, as have many of his works which perhaps explains why he of the Year. his portrayal of Jack. His other Our Man In Havana (PFT).

74 75 for the stage, including: Forty 32 Charles Cusick Smith Musical. Co-Designs in Germany: Inspector Calls, Private Lives in Exeter in 1991 and over the next David Harrower and John Crowley Habeas Corpus, The Flouers 37 Paul Hoolahan Years On; The Lady In The Van; Designer Spamalot, Hello, Dolly!, A (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); seven years he directed over 40 for Sister Pictures. He became O’Edinburgh, Man Of The Sound Designer Single Spies; The Madness Of Waltzdream, My Fair Lady, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, productions for the company. In Artistic Director of the Royal Moment, Summer Lightning, Charles was born in Glasgow, and Paul has been specialising in George III (together with the Carousel, West Side Story, La Whisky Galore – A Musical!, A 1995, he created the Northcott’s Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in Kind Hearts And Coronets, Double studied at Glasgow School of Art Sound Production and Design Oscar-nominated screenplay Cage Aux Folles and Kiss Me, Little Night Music, Carousel, acclaimed Shakespeare In The 2016. Indemnity, Amadeus, Travels and post graduate at The Slade. in the creative industries for The Madness Of King George Kate. The Lady In The Van, The Gardens event in the grounds With My Aunt, The Magistrate He has been awarded TMA Best Theatre credits include: The over a decade. Prior to joining and an adaptation of Kenneth Importance Of Being Earnest, of the city’s Rougemont and The Little Foxes. Designer 1993 and the Evening Pitlochry Festival Theatre: Suppliant Women (Actors the design team at Pitlochry Grahame's The Wind In The Improbable Fiction, This Happy Castle, which in just three years News Award Best Designer 1986 Passing Places, Heartbreak Touring Company/Lyceum); Past work includes designs for Festival Theatre, he worked on Willows). At the National Theatre, Breed, Hard Times, Pyrenees grew into the largest open-air for his designs in the UK. House, Outlying Islands, The The Lorax (Old Vic); Lanark (The Riverside Studios, London; Lyric a variety of productions ranging The History Boys won Evening (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Shakespeare event in the UK Life Of Stuff, Bus Stop, Nana, Lyceum, Edinburgh International Theatre, Belfast; Druid Theatre, from music concerts and tours, Standard, Critics' Circle and Olivier Internationally, Charles has Doctor Faustus, The School For outwith London. Dr Angelus, Two, The Steamie, Festival); Charlie and the Galway; Watford Palace Theatre; to theatre shows and corporate awards, and the South Bank designed Giselle for the Greek Scandal, The Duchess Of Malfi, It’s A Wonderful Life, Mr Bolfry In 1999, his interest in community Chocolate Factory (West End York Theatre Royal; Unicorn events. Award. On Broadway it won five National Ballet and Romeo Volpone (Stage on Screen) and and A Little Night Music. arts, performance training and and Broadway (2017); The Events Theatre, London; Mercury New York Drama Desk Awards, And Juliet, The Nutcracker, Private Peaceful (Scamp Theatre, His past theatre credits include site-specific production led him (Actors Touring Company/ Theatre, Colchester; Dundee four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, 33 Wayne Dowdeswell UK Tour). the award winning shows to become Artistic Director first Young Vic/Brageteatret & Rep; King’s Theatre, Glasgow; a New York Drama Critics' Award Giselle, Three Musketeers, Lighting Designer Sunshine On Leith and Sweeney Opera includes: Eugene Onegin, of Theatre Venture in London Schauspielhaus Wien); The Northcott Theatre, Exeter and for Best Play, a New York Drama and Raymonda in Estonia. Todd for Dundee Rep Theatre and Wayne spent several Seasons Rinaldo, Madama Butterfly and then of Gatton Community Strange Undoing of Prudencia Nottingham Playhouse. League Award and six Tonys In Germany: Nabucco, Aida, UK touring productions, such as at Contact Theatre, Manchester (Grange Park Opera); The Mikado Theatre in Surrey, whilst Hart (NTS at Tron Theatre/Royal including Best Play. The film Don Carlos, The Wall, Otello, Designs for national tours The Music Of Dirty Dancing and before joining the Royal (D’Oyly Carte, Savoy Theatre); continuing to work as a freelance Court/Welsh Centre/CLF Theatre/ The History Boys was released Der Rosenkavalier, Cavalleria include: The 39 Steps, The comedian Brian Conley’s Best Of Shakespeare Company (RSC) The Cunning Little Vixen, director, tutor and writer. UK tour); Fragile / Cello (Young in 2006. Rusticana and Pagliacci. In Hong Ladykillers, Time And The . . . 2009 tour. where he lit many productions Katya Kabanova, Falstaff, La John joined PFT as Artistic Vic/Southark Playhouse/Latitude for The Other Place, The Pit Bohème, Tosca, Jenůfa, The Director in 2003 and his Festival); Dunsinane (Hampstead and Barbican Theatres. He was Marriage Of Figaro (Longborough subsequent PFT productions Theatre/UK tour); Midsummer Lighting Supervisor for The Swan Festival Opera); and Lucia Di have included: The Shop At Sly (Traverse Theatre/Soho Theatre/ Theatre, where designs include: Lammermoor (Scottish Opera Corner, To Kill A Mockingbird, Tricycle Theatre/International The Rover, The Fair Maid Of The and Mariinsky Theatre, St Hamlet: The Actors' Cut, Snake tour); Miniskirts of Kabul (Tricycle West, Titus Andronicus, The Jew Petersburg). In The Grass, Wild Honey, What Theatre); Damascus (Traverse of Malta, Doctor Faustus, The Every Woman Knows, The Life Theatre/Tricycle Theatre); Being Duchess Of Malfi, Edward II, The 34 John Durnin Of Stuff, Kiss Me, Kate, Nana, My Norwegian (Shunt Vaults); Seagull and Tamburlaine The Director Fair Lady, Little Shop Of Horrors, The American Pilot (The Other Great. John began his theatre career Place/Soho Theatre/Manhattan Kong: Il Trovatore and Spartacus. Communicating Doors, Dear Conways, Mindgame and Our The Habit Of Art, premiered as a stage manager with Theatre Club). Alongside his work in theatre, he In France: Casse-Noisette and RSC West End designs include: Brutus, Hello, Dolly!, Present Man In Havana. at National Theatre 2012 and Manchester's Library Theatre is regularly employed by major Alice In Wonderland. Also Giselle The Shakespeare Revue, The Laughter, It's A Wonderful 36 Ken Harrison toured thereafter. Bath Theatre Company in 1982, before winning Recent work includes Grounded, Scottish events such as Glasgow for English National Ballet Cherry Orchard, The Roman Life, The Yellow On The Broom, Royal's production of The an Arts Council bursary to train Designer The Effect, Outlying Islands International Jazz Festival, T In and The Nutcracker for West Actor, The Island Princess, The Miracle On 34th Street, A Little Madness Of George III (starring there as a director. He moved Trained at Motley Theatre Design (Firebrand Theatre); Much The Park, Celtic Connections and Australian Ballet. Malcontent, The Tamer Tamed, Night Music, Pyrenees, White David Haig) toured the UK and to the Everyman Theatre, Course. Ado About Nothing (Dundee Glasgow International Comedy Sejanus, Speaking Like Magpies, Christmas, Carousel and This then transferred to the Apollo European premières: Follies, Cheltenham in 1987, where he Rep); Cinderella, The Snow Festival. Breakfast With Mugabe and The Happy Breed. Designs for Pitlochry Festival Theatre, London in 2012. People, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd spent two years as Associate Queen, The Lion, the Witch Canterbury Tales. Theatre include: Damsels In His touring experience is not opened at the National Theatre (TMA Best Production 1990) Director, before working with 35 David Greig And The Wardrobe (Royal Distress, Our Man In Havana, The limited to the UK and in the past in 2012 and toured the UK and Ladies Night. Boyzone’s Other theatre productions Coventry Belgrade, Chichester Lyceum, Edinburgh); and Dick Playwright Lady In The Van, The Importance few years he has worked on thereafter. His two short plays, Something Else Tour and Rock include: Medea (West End and Festival Theatre, London's McWhittington, Beauty And The David is currently under Of Being Earnest, The Ladykillers, events in Europe and the USA Hymn and Cocktail Sticks (Untold Around The Dock (Granada TV). Broadway); The Birthday Party, Albany Empire and numerous Beast, Death Of A Salesman and commission to write new plays The Admirable Crichton, Single including: Tonder Folk Festival, Stories) opened at the National Not The End Of The World (Bristol drama schools as a freelance Jane Eyre (Perth Theatre). Co-design of musicals include: for the Royal Court Theatre and Spies, Henceforward, Privates Denmark; Interceltique Festival Theatre at the end of 2012 and Old Vic); A Midsummer Night’s director. Oklahoma!, Hot Stuff, Heavenly the National Theatre of Scotland On Parade, An Ideal Husband, in Lorient, France and Milwaukee then transferred to the Duchess Dream, A Streetcar Named Bodies, Chicago, Company, In John was appointed Artistic and is developing an original The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Irish Festival to name a few. Theatre, London. Desire, David Copperfield, An The Midnight Hour, Cliff – The Director of the Northcott Theatre television series with co-creators Whisky Galore – A Musical!,

76 77 In 2010, he joined the production Previous designs for Pitlochry Earnest, Sunday In The Park 40 Patrick Sandford 41 Raymond Short • Speakeasy • Lyceum • Hartleys • Douglas • Carol McGill, team as Technical & Production Festival Theatre: Para Handy and With George, Hot Stuff, and Dolly Director Fight Director Special Productions, Theatre, Auctions Ltd. McBride, for her flower Manager for Tiree Music Festival, Hard Times for the 2016 Season. West’s Kitchen. thanks Stanley Edinburgh • Tanya Noor & Photographer arrangements Patrick's productions at Pitlochry Raymond choreographed his first in the Theatre which, in 2014, was awarded the Future productions in 2017 • Castle • Perth Theatre Cheryl Hill at • Music for Hard He also designed: Trackers Festival Theatre include Alan fight for his local karate club at to: foyer title of “Best Small Event” by UK include: Out Of This World (Mark Furniture • Dundee Rep get-set-go- Times by Of Oxyrhynchus (West Bennett's The Lady In The Van, the age of 12. He continued his Project, bags.com Sarah Angliss • The Fergus Event Awards. Murphy’s V-TOL); Coriolanus • The Old Mill Inn Yorkshire Playhouse); The with Jacqueline Dutoit in the interest in martial arts along with • Tron Theatre, Glenrothes • The Original and Caroline family, for Vanishes (Fire Exit); The 306: Day • Morrisons, Glasgow Paul is delighted to return to PFT Cherry Orchard (York Theatre title role, Bridie's Mr Bolfry, drama, fencing and movement • MacRobert Chair Radcliffe, lending (National Theatre of Scotland); Perth • Andrew for the 2017 Season musical. Royal); Fame (National tours) Emlyn Williams' Night Must Fall, throughout school and youth Arts Centre, Company using sounds us their Velvet Evening Seance (Ross • Asda, Perth Illingworth – recorded at beautiful car and in London, 125th Street and The Queen Of Spades by Jo theatre and eventually Stirling • Acorn Fabrics 38 Becky Minto MacKay); The Ramshackle House WIDDOP and Co Quarry Bank to photograph (Shaftsbury Theatre); Jailhouse Clifford. He began his career at graduated from RSAMD in 1994. • Trixi MacAulay and Interiors Designer (Upswing) and The Sunshine Mill, Styal (pages 6 & 66) Rock (Piccadilly Theatre) and Perth Theatre under Joan Knight, Over his 27 year long professional • Quorn Foods Ghost (Andy Cannon/Richard Becky trained in Theatre Design Buddy (The Duchess Theatre). who taught him pretty much career, he has induced thousands Lewis). at The Welsh College of Music Adrian also designed the 50th everything. of combatants to hit, maim and various institutes around the Neil has won five TMA Patrons & Trustees and Drama in Cardiff. Designs kill each other (safely!) on stage country for all ages and abilities Awards and a CATS award He has been Artistic Director Artistic Director: John Durnin for other companies include: and screen, using everything and his dance work for older for Best Design, been part of of The Nuffield Theatre National Theatre of Scotland, he can lay his hands on, from adults living with dementia numerous Edinburgh Fringe Executive Director: Kris Bryce (Southampton), The Redgrave The Royal Lyceum, Visible traditional weapons, through has recently attracted media First productions and has been Theatre (Farnham) and The Honorary Patrons: Fictions, Vanishing Point, Grid to more obscure items such as attention making him an internet awarded The Linbury Prize for Lyric Theatre (Belfast). He has Mrs June Bennett Iron, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, skateboards, giant toadstools sensation with over 15 million Stage Design, plus the Sir Alfred directed at Edinburgh's Royal Mrs Anne Boyd Dundee Rep, Lung Ha, Upswing, and yes – even the kitchen sink! views on social media for the Munnings Florence Prize for Lyceum, The Brunton and The Richard M Findlay Perth Theatre, 7:84, Walk The It is always a joy to return to BBC. Painting. 39 40 42 Tron, several times in London's Brigadier Mel Jameson CBE Plank, Scottish Dance Theatre, Pitlochry Festival Theatre for the West End, at the London and This is Chris’ 8th Season at PFT Recent theatre credits include: Fiona Kennedy OBE DDL Fire Exit, All Or Nothing and Summer Season, which he has Edinburgh Fringe and abroad having choreographed many Girl In The Machine, I’m With The Magnus Linklater CBE Citizens Theatre. 39 Adrian Rees Anniversary UK tour of Buddy done over the past 10 years. musical productions including Band, The Dark Things, Passing in the USA, France, Germany, Ms Mary Marquis MBE FRSAMD She has designed a wide range (2009); Round The Horne – Scrooge!, Carousel, White Places, Gagarin Way, The Slab Designer Australia and South Africa. He 42 Chris Stuart-Wilson Mr Norman L Murray Unseen And Uncut, directed of productions for main-house Adrian studied theatre design won the TMA Award for Best Christmas, Kiss Me, Kate, A Boys Trilogy (Traverse Theatre); by Richard Baron (Brighton Choreographer Sir John Shaw CBE and touring productions, aerial at the Wimbledon School of Art. Director for The Winter Wife, a Little Night Music, My Fair Lady, The Missing, Mary Stuart Theatre Royal/UK Tour); the 25th Chris graduated with Honours The Lady Vallance of Tummel JP and dance performances, He was Head of Design at the new play by Claire Tomalin. Little Shop Of Horrors, Hello, (National Theatre of Scotland); anniversary tour of Buddy – The in Medical Anatomy from John Wallace site-specific and large outdoor Belgrade Theatre in Coventry for Dolly!, Whisky Kisses and many Fever Dream: Southside Buddy Holly Musical and the At the St James Theatre in Edinburgh University before events. Becky was Associate seven years, where he designed theatrical favourites, such as The (Citizens Theatre); Death Of A Company secretaries & Law American National Tour of Buddy London he recently directed moving into the world of Agents: J & H Mitchell WS Designer for the Opening and more than sixty productions, Steamie, A Chorus Of Disapproval Salesman, Victoria, Further Than The Musical. Bully Boy by Sandi Toksvig, and choreography, teaching, Closing Ceremonies of the including The Coventry Mystery and Privates On Parade. He is The Furthest Thing, Romeo Auditors: Saffery Champness Bloodshot by Douglas Post – also writing and performance. With Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Plays in the Cathedral Ruins and For PFT, Adrian has designed delighted to be returning to the And Juliet, Sunshine On Leith, playing in Calgary, Chicago, and a foundation in Latin Ballroom Bankers: Bank of Scotland Games. Her designs for the Catherine Cookson’s The Fifteen set and costumes for: Passing genius of Cole Porter with High (Dundee Rep); The Small Things next year Florida. In 2012 he was dance, he moved on to embrace Trustees: site-specific productionsWhite Steps. Places, Miracle On 34th Street, Society. (Paines Plough); Ghosts (Tron nominated Best Director in the everything from Bollywood Gold for Iron-Oxide and Ignition Hello, Dolly!, Lady Windermere’s Theatre); Woyzeck, The Glass Mr Colin Liddell WS – Chairman, Adrian designed the costumes Off West End Theatre awards for to Burlesque and his quirky, For more information, please for the National Theatre of Fan, White Christmas, Dear Menagerie, Comedians (Royal Ms Heather Stuart – Vice Chair for Bob Carlton’s Return To Smallholding by Chris Dunkley at choreographic style has included go to www.chrisjswilson.com Scotland were selected for the Brutus, The Admirable Crichton, Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Mr Malcolm Brown The Forbidden Planet at The the Soho Theatre. His own one- a range of terpsichorean delights, Make/Believe: UK Design for To Kill A Mockingbird, Treasure 43 Neil Warmington Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Mr Michael Dale man performance, Groomed, Cambridge Theatre, which won such as finger tap-dancing in Company); Performance Exhibition at the Island, The Grapes Of Wrath, Designer The Life Of Stuff Mr Gavin Douglas the Olivier Award for Best Musical won the Outstanding Theatre PFT's award-winning production Prague Quadrennial and the V&A, Taking Sides, Wild Honey, Neil is an award-winning theatre (Donmar Warehouse); Troilus And in 1990. Award at last year's Brighton of White Christmas and skipping Ms Julie Ellen London in 2015. Her design for Arcadia, Cinderella, See How and costume designer based in Cressida (Opera North); Butterfly Fringe and will open in June this rope-ography in the Royal Ms Kate Howie The 306: Dawn (National Theatre Adrian has worked extensively They Run! and My Fair Lady Glasgow. He graduated in Fine (Ramesh Meyyappan); Knives year at the Soho Theatre. Conservatoire of Scotland's Mr Gary Love of Scotland) has been selected at Leicester Haymarket Theatre, and sets for The Winslow Boy, Art Painting from Maidstone In Hens (Tag Theatre); and The production of Legally Blonde. Mr David Mitchell as a finalist for the World Stage designing The Sound Of Music, The Hollow, The Queen Of College of Art before attending Tempest (Contact Theatre). Design Exhibition in Taipei this A View From The Bridge, The Spades, The Shop At Sly Corner, In addition to choreography, the Motley Theatre Design Ms Gail Pallin year. Rink, The Importance Of Being Chimneys and Snake In The Chris also teaches dance at Course in London. Dr Maurice Taylor CBE Grass. 78 79 SAMPLE John Durnin Artistic Director Morna Mitchell Usher Rebecca Ellard Dresser Jean Moore Usher Soup of the Day MENU Festival PFT Staff Larry Emerson Freelance Carpenter Paul Murphy Stage Technician with a rustic roll Bruce Eterman Box Office Assistant David Neville Bar Staff Iona Eterman Deputy Wardrobe Supervisor Elizabeth Nisbet Garden Volunteer Tracy’s Scottish Smoked Helen Evans Garden Volunteer Ronnie Nisbet Garden Volunteer Haddock and Prawn Risotto Paul Falconer Deputy Head of Sound Fran Norris General Manager: Richard Abbey Deputy Head of Lighting and Sound with chive crème fraîche Val Farrar Stage Door Keeper Administration & Communication Murray Airlie Carpenter Restaurant Kristella Farrar-Ogilvie Waitress Bryan Ogilvie Assistant Catering Manager Ruth Alexander Company Manager Goats Cheese Fritter Peter Fennell Head of Lighting and Sound Trish O’Grady Graphic Designer Jenny Allison Usher with mango, chilli and lime salsa Ayla Fergus Assistant Cutter Kayleigh Olsen Lighting and Sound Assistant Ruth Anderson Groups Relationship Manager Douglas Fergus Garden Volunteer Jenny Park Usher John Anderson Catering Manager Chicken, Sun Blushed Tomato Betty Fergus Garden Volunteer Margaret Pirnie Retail Manager & Café Bar Robbie Barclay Swing Technician and Fresh Basil Pesto Terrine Margaret Ferguson Garden Volunteer Suzi Potts Scenic Artist Muriel Battison Shop Assistant with rocket leaves Natalie Fern Costume Maker Greg Powrie Carpenter Janis Bernans Kitchen Assistant Marianne Forde Resident Deputy Marianne Pritchard Scenic Artist • • • • • Pam Blanks Garden Volunteer Stage Manager Jessie Pryde Audio Describer Ray Blanks Garden Volunteer Sheena Forsythe Garden Volunteer Sandy Pywell Garden Volunteer Confit Leg of Erzsebet Bondor Cleaner Connor Gallagher Carpenter Pete Ramsden Freelance Carpenter Gressingham Duck Linda Boyd Garden Volunteer Ann Garden Usher Loretta Reynolds Garden Volunteer Norman Braidwood Audio Describer on a bed of roasted onions and Rob Gear Carpenter Loretta Rodney Usher Pre-Theatre Dinner All Day Lynn Brawley Garden Volunteer Stornoway black pudding, fine Norah Gibson Garden Volunteer Barbara Rombaut Garden Volunteer Bill Bright Car Park Attendant Chris Gillies Backstage Tours Guide June Ross Shop Assistant There’s an eclectic range Dinner is prepared on the If you wish to pop in for green beans, creamed potatoes Leah-Ashley Brown Swing Technician Margaret Gillies Audio Describer Glenda Rudd Usher & Garden Volunteer of flavours and styles on premises and is served coffee, ice cream, a quick and port sauce Kris Bryce Executive Director Susan Hellier Audio Describer Carolyn Russell Backstage Tours Guide each evening menu, created from 6.30pm on Monday snack or, indeed, to enjoy Jane Burnett Bar Staff John Henley Garden Volunteer Marie Russell Garden Volunteer George’s Pan Fried Fillet David Caldwell Cleaner using plenty of local and to Saturday and on Sunday a matinée performance Kay Hesford Seasonal Stage Manager Hayley Ryan Waitress of Scottish Pork Jennifer Cameron Duty FOH Manager Annie Hibberd General Manager: Funding & Events Kath Sanderson Usher seasonal produce, freshly when a concert is scheduled. or a visit to the Explorers with roasted baked potatoes, Marion Cameron Cleaner Janet Hobson Bar Staff Heather Saunderson Resident Assistant prepared on the premises. The Restaurant is very Garden, our Café Bar offers apple and parsnip purée, Rowan Cannon Box Office Assistant Annie Hogg Audio Describer Stage Manager Julius Cardew Theatre FOH Manager Kate Schofield Resident Stage Manager To help set the scene, popular, so please make spacious and comfortable fondant carrots and thyme jus Alasdair Hood Stage Management Placement Steve Carlin Head of Production & Resources Elizabeth Howarth Seasonal Assistant Drew Scott Community & Education Director Head Chef Kacper Cwik and sure you book early by seating plus something to Grilled Loin of North Sea Cod Julie Carlin Wardrobe Supervisor Stage Manager Caroline Scott Finance Assistant Meg Carr Stage Management Placement Gareth Hughes Lighting Programmer his team have designed calling Box Office on suit everyone: from light on a bed of tomato and fennel Grahame Scott Master Carpenter Andy Chan Trading Advisor Jean Igo Garden Volunteer Judy Shaw Stuart Audio Describer ragu, wilted spinach, sautéed different, signature menus 01796 484626. bites to great value lunches Gina Charleson Garden Volunteer Judy Jamieson Waitress Lorna Somerville Garden Volunteer for each play, including and daily specials, all at a potatoes and lemon sauce Sandy Charleson Garden Volunteer Michael Janueswicz Kitchen Assistant Jannet Sorley Usher Two courses: £22.95 Mike Cheesewright Garden Volunteer Jocelyn Jenner Garden Volunteer Technical Assistant some “themed” dishes reasonable price. Lunch is Ken Stark Creamy Leek, Spring Onion David Chipperfield Stage Crew Emma Johnstone Waitress Sandra Steel Waitress named after characters or Three courses: £25.95 available seven days a week. and Chive Penne Pasta Heather Clark Garden Volunteer Jane Kyd Shop Assistant Margaret Struthers Garden Volunteer reflecting the setting of with garlic bread and Parmesan Stephen Coetzee Marketing Assistant Peggy Latter Audio Describer Gordon Struthers Garden Volunteer flakes Giles Conisbee Head of Sales & Marketing Maggi Lindsay Seasonal Deputy Stage Manager Roger Sutton Workshop Manager that evening’s performance. Julia Corden Garden Manager Moyra Lumby Audio Describer Edward Symanski Cleaner • • • • • Ann Covell Costume Maintenance Assistant Peter MacIntosh IT Manager Pam Taylor Garden Volunteer Our table service is designed Lindsay Crawford Dayman Derek Marston Head of Finance Morag Thorne Coffee Bar Assistant to be fast, efficient and Vanilla Panna Cotta Alex Cullens Box Office Assistant Gretta Maxwell Garden Volunteer Nick Trueman Technical Manager with Scottish berry compôte John Cummings Audio Describer Linda McAdam Garden Volunteer to ensure that you relax, Fiona Valpa Garden Volunteer Emma Cursley Management Accountant Judy McCranor Garden Volunteer Margaret Viner Garden Volunteer take in one the best Chocolate and Orange Kacper Cwik Head Chef Jackie McCranor Garden Volunteer Val Wallace Garden Volunteer views from a restaurant Mousse Fiona Dalgleish Technical Placement Kieran McCruden Technical Assistant Nev Wallace Garden Volunteer with nutty crumbs Pat David Garden Volunteer Rosemary McCulloch Garden Volunteer Grace Walters Dresser in Scotland (according to Max Davidson Master Carpenter Euan McIntosh Stage Door Receptionist Claire Webster Production Assistant The Scotsman), and enjoy All profits Dexter’s Sticky Toffee Rosanna Davidson Scenic Artist Katie Mckinlay Waitress Piotr Weresa Second Chef eating with friends, family from our Café, Bar Pudding Atholl Davidson Stage Door Keeper Steven Mckinlay Kitchen Porter Mike Whalley Head of Stage Alistair Dickson Garden Volunteer & Restaurant are with Stewart Tower banana ice Ruth McLaren Garden Volunteer Lesley Whitwood Audio Describer and loved ones. Best of all, Lauren Dickson Coffee Bar Assistant Jane McLaren Coffee Bar Assistant Lesley Wilson Usher reinvested in our stage cream and butterscotch sauce Fiona Dickson Shop Assistant Nathalie McNamara Garden Volunteer we guarantee you won’t productions. Your Benita Wylie Audio Describer Alec Drummond Senior Box Office Assistant Gaynor McNeill Finance Assistant Shana Young Graphic Designer miss curtain up! support is greatly Trio of Cheese and Biscuits Alison Drummond Coffee Bar Assistant Heather McRobbie Garden Volunteer Jimmy Young Cleaner appreciated! Smoked Arran, Stilton and Brie Andy Duncan Cleaner Annie Millar Waitress Gillian Young Garden Volunteer 80 Christine Dunn Usher Wendy Miller Garden Volunteer 81 During the The first of these was a Fundraising Strategy, undertaken by Another welcome piece of news is that the Vision 2021 Currently under consideration last year, More Partnership (More assisted us with the very successful project succeeded earlier this year in being selected for for the 2018 Summer Season Season we’ve been fundraising campaign in 2007/8 that allowed us to purchase inclusion in the Tay Cities Deal. The Tay Cities Deal brings are these following: making good and convert the building which now forms our suite of together public, private and voluntary organisations in 2018 progress with rehearsal rooms, education spaces and scenic and wardrobe the Angus, Dundee, Fife and Perth & Kinross in an effort to Chicago the development stores next to the Fonab Castle Hotel). The Fundraising create a smarter, fairer and more prosperous region. To do music by John Kander, lyrics of the Vision 2021 Strategy for Vision 2021 has helped to identify potential so, the local authorities that make up the Tay Cities zone will by Fred Ebb, book by Fred project, which is designed sources of funding for the project, the likely amounts that enter negotiations with the UK and Scottish Governments Ebb and Bob Fosse For Services to transform the capital facilities can be raised in the current economic climate and the split to secure significant capital investment in and greater local Rendered Fiddler On The Roof currently available at PFT, whilst retaining all that is good between public and private funding sources that will be powers for the region. These will be used to encourage skills Somerset Maugham music by Jerry Bock, lyrics and valued about the existing building. In so doing, PFT will required to deliver this transformational project. development, deliver new infrastructure projects and boost by Sheldon Harnick The Anatomist the economic and employment opportunities within the and book by Joseph Stein James Bridie region. One One King Charles III The Last Witch possible view possivle view A key part of the Tay Cities Deal will be the creation of a from North East, from car park, Mike Bartlett Rona Munro Nicoll Russell Nicoll Russell new tourism network in Tayside and the East of Scotland, Studio Studio which will link together a range of new and existing visitor Shakespeare In Love Dancing At Lughnasa attractions that can collectively attract increased numbers Lee Hall & Tom Stoppard Brian Friel of tourism visits from Scotland, the UK, mainland Europe Donkey‘s Years The Hypocondriak and further afield. PFT’sVision 2021 project is felt to be Michael Frayn Hector MacMillan an important part of this new network and we are hopeful that a major funding contribution to the project may be All of the above titles - some of which may, unfortunately, forthcoming from the Tay Cities Deal, once negotiations fall by the wayside due to the unavailability to PFT of the between the UK and Scottish Governments conclude in professional performing rights - can be performed by our March 2018. usual ensemble of 18 performers. In future, however, we would like to explore ways to fund an increase in the size Throughout 2017, PFT will be continuing to develop further be able to increase significantly the range, scale and volume The second piece of work, undertaken by BOP Consulting, of our Summer Season ensemble, so that we can consider its Vision 2021 plans through its discussions with the of work that we produce and present in the future, attract was an Outline Business Case for the project. BOP were one programming even bigger works with even larger cast sizes. Scottish Government and others – and we shall, of course, new audiences whilst retaining our current supporters, of the consultants who worked on the original Feasibility make sure that we share all the news with you, our loyal One option to achieve this objective would be to create a and generate even more income from Box Office and our Study for Vision 2021 in 2012, so their knowledge of PFT and audiences, as the project gathers pace! new group of Summer Season Supporters, who we would catering and retail facilities, which can then be reinvested in of our ambitions for Vision 2021 was of great benefit. Having ask to make donations specifically to enable PFT to consider the work onstage. tested in the Business Case our proposals for a second programming musicals, comedies and dramas that are performance space, a full height fly tower (to allow touring Thanks to a very generous grant from The Scottish simply too big to be delivered by an ensemble of 18. Imagine in and out), a vocational training centre and new auditorium Government in 2016, we were able to commission two how the range of choices for the Summer Season might and FOH facilities, BOP have been able to establish very crucial pieces of research work from specialist consultants increase if the ensemble size grew to 20 or 22 – or even 24! convincingly that Vision 2021 is economically viable, is last year. These research consultancies will be vital support essential to PFT’s long-term sustainability and is capable If you would be keen to support an initiative that could documents for any major applications for capital funding of delivering all of the creative, educational and financial deliver an even more spectacular Summer Season and for Vision 2021 that we make over the next two years. These outcomes to which we aspire: very welcome news, as we would like to learn more about this idea, then please e-mail two consultancies concluded in December 2016 and the final enter a period of key discussions this year with Creative us at [email protected] to register your reports have since been approved and adopted by PFT’s Scotland, Perth & Kinross Council, the Scottish Government interest. 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