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! wild space wild space wild space wild space Find us just off the A9, near Pitlochry Station, at: Atholl Road, Pitlochry, PH16 5AN Come and connect with your essential wildness at the John Muir Trust’s Wild Space visitor centre in Pitlochry. l See wild places and animals on film. l Hear evocative audio journeys. l Enjoy inspiring photography, artwork and gifts. johnmuirtrust.org 26th October to 12th November A hilarious romp around the glens from the master of Scottish farce, this adaptation of the classic 1930s comedy follows Photography by: Keith Brame, Peter Cairns/scotlandbigpicture.com in the footsteps of our smash-hit productions of Para Handy last year and our last Compton Mackenzie adaptation, The John Muir Trust is a Scottish charitable company limited by guarantee. Charity No: SC002061, Company No: SC081620. Registered office: Tower House, Station Road, Pitlochry PH16 5AN Whisky Galore - A Musical!. We hope you can join us to raise a glass to this eagerly anticipated world première! Tickets & Offers Groups SAVE ON 2ND SHOW SAVINGS FOR TRANSPORT THE MONARCH TICKETS DISCOUNTS SCHOOLS SUBSIDY OF THE GLEN 1 - 23 December New Benefits, JULY Special Offers Tickets now on sale! -20% & Information 31 From family gatherings The Daily Mail to work outings, and The Telegraph community groups to NEW! Enjoy Get 20% off School Groups: Enjoy 20% off Save £4.50 clubs, schools and societies, £3.00 off per your second £7.50 per pupil the cost of per ticket we offer fantastic ticket ticket on all booking (1 teacher per your Group’s if you book and rates, special offers and performances, when you 10 pupil goes train or coach pay by 31st a dedicated contact to including come back to free) and 20% travel. July for any help Groups (of 8 or more) performance. Saturday see a second off train or get the most out of their Available in Price theatre experience. nights!* show. coach travel. Band 3 only. Groups don’t need to pay THANKS ORGANISERS! Group Organisers enjoy a free interval ice-cream and programme. for tickets straight away – just reserve your tickets *£3.00 off per ticket on Price Bands 2 and 3 on all matinée and Monday - Thursday evening performances and Price Band 3 on Friday and Saturday evenings. and we will hold your reservation for up to four Make it Your Day Feast at CHOOSE FROM weeks (unless the date falls Light Lunch: £9.95 Ruth Anderson, our less than 2 weeks prior to the Festival Lunch: £14.00 dedicated Groups Manager, Whether you’re here to the performance or an offer Afternoon Tea: £7.50 Based on the classic Metro- and our friendly Box Office enjoy a matinée or evening Goldwyn-Mayer film, by stipulates otherwise). High Tea: £14.00 team are on hand to help performance, we offer special arrangement with Pre-Theatre dinner Warner Bros. Theatre We’ll then ask you for a 25% with arranging preferred something to suit everyone, Ventures, Inc. deposit, with the balance seating and advice on from £22.95 Music Pubished by EMI, from quick snacks to our all rights administered how best to make your Group tickets and offers do not apply to due 21 days before your very special pre-theatre Preview performances or Price Bands by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC visit. This leaves you plenty payments, as well as 1 and 4 unless otherwise indicated. All dinner, with a menu specific (Original Movie organising food, drink, offers are subject to availability and of time to finalise your to each show. We can cater cannot be used in conjunction with Choreography by Gene Kelly and Stanley other concessions or offers. Group numbers. backstage tours and talks. for Groups of up to 80! Donen) Produced by agreement with Maurice Rosenfield, Lois F. Rosenfield and We’ve teamed up Cindy Pritzker, Inc. Coming to see a Saturday Performed by with award-winning The Daily Telegraph arrangement with or Wednesday matinée Music Theatre Rabbie’s Trail International The Guardian Songs By performance of Singin’ In Burners to transport (Europe) Limited The Rain couldn’t be easier. you to the show. The Scotsman Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed Call Box Office or go online for details about departure locations and times. 04 Screenplay By Betty Comden and Adolph Green MUSIC AND LYRICS BY Cole Porter Acts High Society The action takes place in BOOK BY and around Seth Lord’s Arthur Kopit waterfront estate at Oyster ADDITIONAL LYRICS BY Bay, Long Island, New York, Cast Susan Birkenhead over two days in June, 1952. Emma ...................................Joanna Lucas * BASED ON THE PLAY “THE Act 1 Scene 1 The Lords’ house, Eva ..................................Serena Giacomini * PHILADELPHIA