Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Pitlochry Listings Added
Æ Adds popular theatre destination to listings
All Edinburgh Theatre will publish theatre listings for Pitlochry Festival Theatre from this week, adding the popular destination theatre to its Edinburgh venues.
Adventures with the Painted People
★★★★★ Perfect timing and setting
David Greig’s Adventures with the Painted People is a clever and evocative piece of theatre which is only enhanced both by being the first full theatre production in Scotland since lockdown and by its performance in Pitlochry’s new Covid-secure amphitheatre.
Hindu Times
★★★☆☆ Fierce Originality:
Hindu Times – the latest audio offering from the Lyceum and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Sound Stage – is a wildly original piece. Although cumbersome at times, it has a raucous energy that is frequently arresting.
Tennis Elbow
★★★★☆ Linguistic luxury
Thoroughly enjoyable on its own terms, Tennis Elbow – the latest offering from Pitlochry Festival Theatre and the Lyceum’s Soundstage – is a flawed but very funny piece.
Angela
★★★★☆ Poignantly perceptive
A touching and utterly personal piece of drama, Angela by Mark Ravenhill is a fitting first offering in the Lyceum and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Sound Stage project in association with Naked Productions Ltd.
Musicals Hub for Studio
Cap Theatres to develop new Scottish musicals
Capital Theatres and Pitlochry Festival Theatre have set up a new joint venture, the Musical Commissioning Hub, to work with Scottish musicians and writers to develop new musicals.
Pitlochry postpones summer season
Replaced with 25 pieces for online consumption:
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has postponed its complete summer 2020 season until 2021 due to Covid-19 and replaced it with 25 commissions from its Shades of Tay project, to be presented as online works over the coming months.
Grogan goes Barefoot at Lyceum
Clare Grogan joins Barefoot in the Park at Lyceum:
Altered Images singer Clare Grogan is to feature in the Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre’s co-production of Barefoot in the Park, playing Edinburgh in April.
Edinburgh cream of CATS
Eight out of Ten CATS prefer Edinburgh:
Eight out of the ten awards handed out at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland have been won by productions made or commissioned in Edinburgh.
PFT To Celebrate Life of Martyn James
Veteran actor of 23 summer seasons remembered by Pitlochry By Thom Dibdin Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced that it is to host a Celebration of the Life of Martyn James on Sunday 19th February, starting at 2pm. The much-loved actor first performed at Pitlochry in 1976 and spent a total of 23 summer seasons with […]
