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Please find following information relating to Pitlochry Festival Theatre Summer Season: 28th May to 15th October.
For further information, or to book review tickets, please contact Nicola Martin at The Red String Agency on 01738 636888 / 07983505716 or via email to nicola@theredstringagency.co.uk. We will be happy to arrange:
Interviews with key staff or cast
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Show with dinner
Theatre breaks in Pitlochry (show with accommodation)
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Show Overview
For the first time since 1996, Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) is presenting seven plays for their traditional and much-loved repertoire season.
Carousel - Described by Time Magazine as the greatest musical of the 20th Century, Carousel is the first ever Rogers & Hammerstein musical to be staged at PFT.
Thark - The Scottish première of Clive Francis's acclaimed 2013 revision of Ben Traver's haunted house farce from 1927
This Happy Breed - Noel Coward's classic tale of family life between two world wars sees the cast age 20 years before your eyes
Hard Times - Stephen Jeffrey's adaptation of Dickens thrilling story of betrayal and sacrifice is set against the background of the industrial revolution in 1840s Lancashire.
The final three plays comprise the first UK revival in over ten years of Ayckbourn's extraordinary Damsels In Distress trilogy. These three completely different modern comedies all have characters unique to each play but will all be performed on the same set by the same seven actors.
This is the first professional production of the entire trilogy since its 2002 run in the West End.
GamePlan - A sharp, contemporary black comedy of metropolitan morals and mishaps.
FlatSpin - With echoes of Hitchcock's North By Northwest, FlatSpin is a hilarious, high-energy story of mistaken identity, magic and misdirection, featuring twist after twist.
RolePlay - A wickedly funny and sometimes poignant story of love, lust and the hazards of dinner parties.
Alan Ayckbourn Trilogy Highlights
Although the plays are all stand-alone and can be enjoyed as individual shows in their own right, PFT will run two Trilogy Days, showing all three plays in a single day.
Dates: Saturday Sept 24th, Saturday Oct 8th
In additional there are many points in the Summer where you can see all three plays over two days.
Summer Season 2016 - Specific Press Performances
Please note, we will be happy to arrange tickets for any performance after these dates
Carousel - Saturday 28 May, 8pm
Thark - Saturday 4 June, 8pm
GamePlan - Friday 17 June, 8pm
FlatSpin - Friday 24 June, 8pm
RolePlay - Monday 27 June, 8pm
This Happy Breed - Tues 2 August, 8pm
Hard Times - Thurs 1 September, 8pm
Pitlochry Festival Theatre - Quick Facts
Pitlochry Festival Theatre attracts over 100,000 paid attendances each year.
We are the only theatre in the UK to offer a daily repertoire system, which allows audiences to see a different show every day during the Summer Season.
Two recent studies have indicated that our economic contribution to the Scottish economy is over £13m annually.
We produce 8 in-house productions annually - more than any other building-based producer in Scotland. (9 this year!)
Almost half of PFT's in-house output focuses on the contemporary repertoire, whilst the rest is Scots language work, late 19th and early 20th century revivals and musicals.
The Explorers Garden (the only public garden in Britain to celebrate the Scottish plant hunters) attracts over 4000 visitors annually. This year it opened as a Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Partner Garden and has achieved National Collection Status for its Meconopsis cultivars and species of large blue poppies by the Plant Heritage
PFT invest's 60% of our turn-over in our productions. That's more than double the amount invested by the Lyceum, the Citz and Dundee Rep. The average for Scottish theatres is 28%.
We receive £500,000 of public subsidy annually which equates to 14% of our annual turn-over. All other building-based producers in Scotland rely on far higher levels of public investment - in some cases up to 50% or 60% of turnover.
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