PFT Summer Season 2015

• 2015 Summer Season •

A Little Night Music 02

Improbable Fiction 04

Home And Beauty 06

The Lady In The Van 08

The Importance Of Being Earnest 10

Pyrenees 12

How To Save and Book 15

Diary 16

Become a PFT Supporter 28

Supporters’ Receptions 31

More Entertainment In 2015 32

Miracle On 34th Street 33

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Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland Number SC029243 at the address below.

• Scottish Charity Number SC013055 • Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry, PH16 5DR • Administration: 01796 484600 • Fax: 01796 484616 • Box Office: 01796 484626 • Email: [email protected] • Website: www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com

• Disabled parking is reserved near the main entrance.

• Wheelchair users can access all facilities. A courtesy wheelchair can also be booked in advance. There are four spaces for wheelchair users in the auditorium.

• For those with impaired hearing, an induction loop is available. Personal sound amplifiers are also available and can be booked in advance.

• For visually impaired visitors, we have an audio description service which can be provided for any performance, as long as Box Office are given prior notice.

• Also for visually impaired visitors, we endeavour to arrange touch tours before a performance (subject to availability).

• Guide dogs, hearing dogs and dogs for the disabled are very welcome. Please advise the Box Office in advance if you’re bringing your dog.

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Stay 6 Days, See 6 Plays

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Dear Patron,

I am delighted to announce details of the 2015 Summer Season at the Theatre in the Hills.

From Sondheim to Somerset Maugham, Ayckbourn to Wilde and David Greig to Alan Bennett, the 2015 Season showcases the work of some of the finest ever creators of drama, comedy and musical theatre from England, Scotland, Ireland and the USA. As you peruse the following pages, I hope that you will be as excited by the prospect of such an entertaining and engaging Season as I was when I settled on this group of six wonderful – and wonderfully different – works.

Given the remarkably high production standards and the critical acclaim that PFT consistently achieves, and the exceptionally wide range of styles, periods and genres that distinguishes the 2015 Season, there will be something here to suit every theatrical appetite. As a result, I hope that there will be many thousands of you wanting to see several – if not all! – of the productions on offer.

To help make that possible, we have created some special ticket offers for those audience members who visit us most regularly, to ensure that you can see more for less – see p. 15 for full details. Remember, many of these offers are available only for a limited time, so the earlier you book and the more shows you choose to see, the better the deal! And so that you can start planning your visits to PFT today, you will find details of some excellent Highland Perthshire accommodation offers in this brochure.

For information about other events and activities during the Summer Season – Sunday concerts, Active Arts workshops, tours, talks, the Explorers Garden – you will receive a more detailed brochure in February next year, packed with everything that makes a visit to PFT so special.

One audience member recently said to me: “what makes PFT special is that you get West End standards, but not at West End prices”. So I hope that you will thoroughly enjoy visiting Scotland’s answer to the West End next year. But before then, there’s still our Winter musical, the spectacular Miracle On 34th Street, to enjoy. On with the parade!

John Durnin Chief Executive & Artistic Director

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“ . . . a glittering, sophisticated musical. Haunting, hilarious, hard edged and brilliant.”

The Sunday Times

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Sweden, 1900: a not-so-chance encounter between glamorous actress Desirée Armfeldt and successful lawyer Fredrik Egerman threatens to rekindle an affair which ended 14 years before – despite the fact that, now, neither is exactly unattached . . .

Fredrik has recently married the beautiful Anne, many years his junior – but all is not well in the marital bed. Desirée is involved in an amour with the irredeemably pompous Count Carl-Magnus – and that’s not going quite to plan either. Worse still, Fredrik’s son from his first marriage, the gloomy Henrik, has fallen hopelessly in love with his new step-mother. And Carl-Magnus’s devoted wife, Charlotte, is ready to cast devotion aside, believing that her wandering husband deserves a taste of his own medicine . . .

A Little Night Music“Solitaire is the only thing in life that demands absolute honesty. As a woman who has numbered kings among her lovers, I think

my word can be taken on that point.”

In an effort to resolve these romantic complications, Desirée invites the main protagonists to a house party at the country estate of her mother, the formidable Madame Armfeldt. But as the wine flows, and the midsummer night casts its spell, just who will end up with whom?

Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece is a deliciously funny exploration of love lost, love found and love rediscovered. With an achingly beautiful score – including The Miller’s Son, The Glamorous Life, A Weekend In The County and the magical Send In The Clowns – this 1973 Broadway classic, performed by a large cast of talented actor-musicians, promises to be the most elegant, romantic PFT musical yet. Could there be a better way to launch the 2015 Summer Season?

“. . . an evening of refined

enchantment.” The Guardian

“. . . piquant, poignant and wise.” The Daily Telegraph

Winner of five Tony Awards

“. . . gloriously barbed bliss and bewitchment.”

The Independent

It’s the week before Christmas and at a meeting of the Pendon Writer’s Circle, it’s clear that none of the group’s members are going to be winning the Booker any time soon . . .

Jess and Grace are struggling to get their pet projects – a bodice-ripper and a children’s story – underway. By contrast, Vivvi just can’t stop, having completed her sixth crime novel of the year. The geeky Clem is only part way through the most complicated sci-fi conspiracy adventure ever conceived, whilst Brevis is completely stuck due to his writing partner’s understandable disinterest in Brevis’s latest idea: a musical adaptation of The Pilgrim’s Progess.

The group’s chairman, Arnold, tries to inspire his colleagues by

Improbable Fictionby Alan Ayckbourn

“You’ve got your imagination, haven’t you? To fall back on? You can make up worlds of your own, can’t you?”

suggesting that they pool their ideas and collaborate on a joint work, but this revolutionary proposal meets with a distinctly muted reception. Until, that is, the meeting has disbanded, a storm begins to rage – and fiction suddenly becomes fact, when Arnold’s suggestion springs unexpectedly and chaotically to life . . . and the worlds of Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace and Arthur C. Clarke collide in the most spectacular way . . .

Alan Ayckbourn’s 2005 comedy is a dazzling, hilarious exploration of what can happen when you let your imagination run wild. If you enjoyed the hugely popular A Chorus Of Disapproval in 2013, then this is the one for you!

“ . . . provides a theatrical transformation of the magnitude only Ayckbourn can dream of.”

The Guardian

“ . . . acutely witty observations, a reminder that life is full of absurdities.”

The Independent

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1919: with the turmoil of the Great War beginning to recede, life in Britain is returning to – well, not quite normal. For after four years of war, the staid Edwardian era is truly over and the Jazz Age is about to begin . . .

Society beauty Victoria definitely looks to the future. After her first husband, Bill, was killed at Ypres, she went completely to pieces, but managed to pull herself together - after a year’s dutiful mourning - by marrying her husband’s best friend, Frederick.

But then, out of the blue, Bill turns up on the doorstep, a touch of amnesia and a spell in a German POW camp having delayed his return. Surprisingly unaffected by his ordeal, Bill is cheered to see his wife, but a mite put out to discover that she’s acquired another

Home And Beauty by W. Somerset Maugham

“The war is over now, and I think I’ve done my bit. I’ve married two DSOs. Now I want to marry a Rolls-Royce.”

husband. And that it’s his old chum Frederick . . .

Interestingly, Victoria seems unconcerned by the news that she’s a bigamist. Perhaps that’s because she’s decided that soldiers no longer make fashionable husbands - and her solicitor has arranged more divorces than any other lawyer in England. Does she already have eyes on husband number three?

Something of a missing link between Wilde and Wodehouse, Home And Beauty is a high energy, sharp-as-a-tack comedy of morals, manners and marriage by one of the greatest playwrights and novelists of the inter-war years. Don’t miss this rare revival of a classic period comedy!

“. . . a sprightly boulevard comedy . . . the perfect West End treat.” The Daily Telegraph

“. . . high-spirited, enjoyably over the top.” The Independent



Please note that this play contains occasional strong language

The Telegraph The Guardian

The Lady In The Vanby Alan Bennett

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Miss Shepherd used to drive ambulances in the war. She might also have been a nun. Now, she sells pencils and pamphlets, frequently hears voices and enjoys regular visits from the Virgin Mary. Oh, and she lives in a clapped-out, hand-painted Bedford van. Which one day she decides to park in Alan Bennett’s front garden in Camden Town.

Caught in two minds about his uninvited guest, Mr. Bennett debates with himself – quite literally – about the moral implications of playing landlord to such a tenant, whilst Miss Shepherd subjects him to bizarre observations, questionable hygiene practices, unusual (to say the least) political opinions and her very own brand of Catholicism: she was hoping

“Sometimes when the light is on I get a glimpse of Miss Shepherd praying, and it is seldom a tranquil or a meditative process.

Banging her fist into her hand, mouthing fierce words – God, I feel, is as much on the receiving end as I am.”

to phone Mother Teresa for a chat, but Directory Enquiries drew a blank.

Friends, neighbours, relatives, doctors and social workers all come and go, yet Miss Shepherd’s van is still wedged tightly onto Mr. Bennett’s property fifteen years later. And Miss Shepherd clearly has no plans to leave, unless it’s in a van-shaped box . . .

Alan Bennett’s award-winning play from 1999 is a fascinating, true life story of a complex relationship, an experiment in tolerance and a unique tale of British eccentricity. If you enjoyed our production of Habeas Corpus in 2008, you’ll love this acclaimed, thoroughly entertaining play from one of Britain’s – and PFT’s – best loved playwrights.

“Very funny, poignant, revealing and splendidly entertaining.” Mail On Sunday

“Bennett is the most generously entertaining of writers, and as always the piece is packed with jokes.”

The Daily Telegraph

The Importance of Being Earnest

“A level of theatrical spectacle no longer

sought or expected on any other Scottish stage”The Scotsman on An Ideal Husband, 2010

Sponsored by The Kuenssberg Charitable Foundation

“Oscar Wilde’s play has a strong claim to being the most

perfect comedy in the English language” The Telegraph



The dependable Jack Worthing, J.P., a pillar of the Hertfordshire community, is profoundly in love with the prim Gwendolyn Fairfax, daughter to the imposing Lady Bracknell.

Jack’s closest friend, the dashing aristocratic playboy Algernon Moncrieff, is besotted with Jack’s ward, the beautiful (and extremely wealthy) Cecily Cardew.

Sadly for both suitors, however, Gwendolyn and Cecily are in love with someone else. Someone called Ernest . . .

All is not lost, however, as it seems that Ernest bears a striking resemblance to Jack – and, somewhat bizarrely, also to Algy. Hardly surprising, given that Ernest is an imaginary “brother” invented by Jack to allowing him to woo Gwendolyn in disguise - and also an

The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”

alter ego that Algy assumes to pay court to Cecily under Jack’s very nose.

But when a series of revelations concerning handbags, nannies, novels, prams, lost babies and Victoria Station threaten to unravel Jack and Algy’s web of deception, the men are forced to reveal their true identities – or are they . . ?

A ‘Trivial Comedy For Serious People’, The Importance Of Being Earnest is perhaps the finest comedy ever written. Wilde’s sparkling masterpiece – a distinctly satiric tale of wealth, status and identity in late Victorian England – brings to a lavish climax PFT’s nine year journey through Wilde’s four great plays, which began with A Woman Of No Importance in 2006. Can there be a better way to spend a Summer afternoon or evening?

“A demonstration of how an elaborate costume drama can still be

made to grip the audience’s attention from the outset, and to deliver a fierce and strangely contemporary theatrical punch”

The Scotsman on Lady Windermere’s Fan, 2013

The Guardian

PYRENEES


In a mountain pass, high in the Pyrenees, two climbers discover a middle-aged man unconscious in the snow. He wears a coat with an American label and a suit by a tailor in Geneva. In one hand, he clasps a briefcase full of euros; in the other, the scallop-shell medallion traditionally carried by pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. He has no papers, no passport, and no memory of who he is or how he got there. And he speaks English . . .

Anna Edwards, from the British Consulate in Marseilles, is duly despatched to see if she can establish his identity. But as she and the man sit on a nearby hotel terrace trying to reconstruct his past and confirm his

Pyrenees by David Greig

“Do you have an idea who he is? I don’t want to know. If he’s done something awful, I don’t want to know.”

nationality, an unexpected attraction begins to develop between them.

The sudden arrival of a visitor threatens to undermine their conclusions - and the burgeoning romance. For the newcomer, Vivienne, claims that she is the man’s wife. That he has a job, a family and a home in Edinburgh. And that she has been pursuing him across Europe for several months . . .

David Greig is widely regarded as Scotland’s greatest living playwright. Following on from his last play to appear at PFT - Outlying Islands, which received a memorable production in 2008 - Pyrenees is a mysterious, tense, thought-provoking drama that questions the very meaning of identity.

“A classy, rewarding, engaging drama, Greig’s best to date.”

The Times

“. . . dramatically gripping and richly entertaining.” The Telegraph


Please note that this play contains occasional strong language


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WHEELCHAIRS

Published prices are subject to change without notification.

A Little Night Music Plays


Friends, Groups, Senior Citizen concessions and Saver Seats do not apply to Preview performances and Band 1 seats. All offers are subject to availability and cannot be used in

conjunction with concessions or other offers. Full terms and conditions apply and are available to view online or at Box Office.

Sat Mon-Thur Matinées & Evenings Evenings Fri Evenings

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2 £30.00 £22.50 £27.50 £22.50

3 £27.50 £20.00 £25.00 £20.00

4 £20.00 £15.00 £17.50 £15.00

Previews Sat Mon-Thur Matinées & Evenings Evenings Fri Evenings

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2 £32.50 £27.50 £30.00 £25.00

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Please note: Event and ticketing information is correct at time of going to print. Changes in the programme of events may alter, so please do check online or at the Box Office. We reserve the right to make changes to the programme, ticket prices and seating plans.

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Buy tickets for 5 shows and get £5.00 off per ticket – save £25.00!


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May

FRI 22 A Little Night Music

SAT 23 A Little Night Music A Little Night Music

THU 28 Improbable Fiction Improbable Fiction


SAT 30 A Little Night Music Improbable Fiction

June

THU 4 Home And Beauty Home And Beauty FRI 5 Improbable Fiction SAT 6 Home And Beauty A Little Night Music THU 11 The Lady In The Van The Lady In The Van FRI 12 A Little Night Music SAT 13 Improbable Fiction Home And Beauty MON 15 The Lady In The Van TUE 16 A Little Night Music WED 17 Improbable Fiction Home And Beauty THU 18 The Lady In The Van

Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (8.00pm)

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Perthshire hills”The Herald



. . . June Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (8.00pm)

FRI 19 A Little Night Music SAT 20 Home And Beauty Improbable Fiction MON 22 A Little Night Music TUE 23 The Lady In The Van WED 24 The Lady In The Van Improbable Fiction THU 25 Home And Beauty FRI 26 The Lady In The Van SAT 27 A Little Night Music Improbable Fiction

MON 29 The Lady In The Van TUE 30 Improbable Fiction

Buy tickets for 3 Monday-to-Thursday shows and get £5.00 off per ticket – save £15.00

July

WED 1 Improbable Fiction A Little Night Music THU 2 Home And Beauty FRI 3 Improbable Fiction SAT 4 The Lady In The Van A Little Night Music MON 6 Home And Beauty TUE 7 A Little Night Music WED 8 A Little Night Music The Lady In The Van THU 9 Improbable Fiction FRI 10 A Little Night Music SAT 11 Home And Beauty The Lady In The Van

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THU 16 The Importance Of Being Earnest The Importance Of Being Earnest FRI 17 Improbable Fiction SAT 18 A Little Night Music Home And Beauty MON 20 The Lady In The Van TUE 21 The Importance Of Being Earnest WED 22 The Importance Of Being Earnest A Little Night Music THU 23 Improbable Fiction FRI 24 Home And Beauty SAT 25 The Lady In The Van A Little Night Music MON 27 The Importance Of Being Earnest TUE 28 Improbable Fiction WED 29 Improbable Fiction Home And Beauty THU 30 The Lady In The Van



August SAT 1 Home And Beauty The Importance Of Being Earnest MON 3 Improbable Fiction TUE 4 The Importance Of Being Earnest WED 5 The Importance Of Being Earnest A Little Night Music THU 6 Home And Beauty FRI 7 The Lady In The Van

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. . . July Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (8.00pm)



SAT 8 Improbable Fiction A Little Night Music MON 10 The Importance Of Being Earnest TUE 11 A Little Night Music WED 12 A Little Night Music The Lady In The Van THU 13 Home And Beauty FRI 14 Improbable Fiction

SAT 15 The Importance Of Being Earnest The Lady In The Van THU 20 Pyrenees Pyrenees FRI 21 A Little Night Music SAT 22 Improbable Fiction Home And Beauty MON 24 The Importance Of Being Earnest TUE 25 Pyrenees WED 26 Pyrenees The Lady In The Van THU 27 The Lady In The Van A Little Night Music

FRI 28 Home And Beauty SAT 29 The Importance Of Being Earnest Improbable Fiction MON 31 The Lady In The Van

Saver Seats – only £15.00! Buy in advance and get the best seats available on the day

September

TUE 1 A Little Night Music

WED 2 A Little Night Music Pyrenees

THU 3 The Importance Of Being Earnest Home And Beauty

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. . . August Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (8.00pm)




FRI 4 Improbable Fiction SAT 5 The Lady In The Van The Importance Of Being Earnest MON 7 Pyrenees TUE 8 Home And Beauty WED 9 Home And Beauty A Little Night Music THU 10 A Little Night Music Improbable Fiction FRI 11 The Importance Of Being Earnest SAT 12 Pyrenees The Lady In The Van MON 14 A Little Night Music TUE 15 Improbable Fiction WED 16 Improbable Fiction Home And Beauty THU 17 Home And Beauty The Importance Of Being Earnest FRI 18 The Lady In The Van SAT 19 A Little Night Music Pyrenees MON 21 Home And Beauty TUE 22 The Importance Of Being Earnest WED 23 The Importance Of Being Earnest Improbable Fiction THU 24 A Little Night Music The Lady In The Van FRI 25 Pyrenees SAT 26 Home And Beauty A Little Night Music

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. . . September Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (8.00pm)



MON 28 Improbable Fiction TUE 29 The Lady In The Van WED 30 The Lady In The Van The Importance Of Being Earnest

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October

THU 1 The Importance Of Being Earnest Pyrenees FRI 2 A Little Night Music SAT 3 Improbable Fiction Home And Beauty MON 5 The Importance Of Being Earnest TUE 6 Pyrenees WED 7 Pyrenees The Lady In The Van THU 8 The Lady In The Van A Little Night Music

FRI 9 Home And Beauty SAT 10 The Importance Of Being Earnest Improbable Fiction MON 12 A Little Night Music TUE 13 The Lady In The Van WED 14 The Lady In The Van Pyrenees THU 15 A Little Night Music Home And Beauty FRI 16 The Importance Of Being Earnest SAT 17 Improbable Fiction A Little Night Music

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. . . September Matinée (2.00pm) Evening (8.00pm)

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How To Support PFT

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2 Complete the Donor Detail sectionFull name of donor: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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I confirm that I have paid or will pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax for each tax year (6 April – 5 April) that is at least equal to the amount that all of the charities I support, including Pitlochry Festival Theatre, will reclaim on my gifts for that tax year. I understand that Pitlochry Festival Theatre will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 that I give on, or after 6 April 2008. I understand that other taxes such as VAT and Council Tax do not qualify.

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Please return this form to Annie Hibberd, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry, Perthshire PH16 5DR

Play Dedications - a chance to directly support your favourite production: plays from £2000, Summer and Winter Musicals from £4000.

Legacies - if you are considering including PFT in your Will, we can send you a leaflet to make this an easy task.

Dedication Plaques - In memory of a special person, a shared enjoyment of PFT, or in celebration of a special event, you can choose to have a plaque on our new picture wall in the foyer. Each plaque is unique and comes in one of three sizes (Large: £1500, Medium: £1000 or Small: £500). You can also select which PFT production you would like your plaque to be connected with.

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For more details, contact Annie Hibberd: 01796 484638 [email protected]

The Yellow On The Broom, 2014


Supporters’ Receptions

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As one of our much valued PFT Supporters, whether Friend, Festival Circle donor or John Stewart Society member, we would like to invite you and your guest to join us for our PFT Supporters’ Receptions during 2015. Following a delicious three course dinner in the River Room, sharing the company of other PFT Supporters, enjoy a special introduction to the evening’s performance from our Artistic Director, John Durnin. After curtain down, stay and meet the cast and crew over coffee and enjoy lively discussion from both sides of the proscenium arch!

You can book your evening through Box Office, including best choice of available seats, for £50 per membership (additional guests are limited to one per PFT Supporter at £50):

A Little Night Music: Friday 19th June

Home And Beauty: Friday 24th July

Pyrenees: Friday 25th September

For the first time, in 2015 we will also be holding Supporters’ Receptions for the Autumn production and Winter Musical. More information to follow in the next brochure!

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The Admirable Crichton, 2014


More Entertainment In 2015!

Pick up a Winter brochure or visit our website for full concert and event details.

© Ravi Deepres

Rapunzel balletLorent

Fri 27 Feb, 7.30pm & Sat 28 Feb, 2.00pm

The Frank & Ella Show with Jacqui Dankworth & Todd GordonSat 28 Mar, 7.30pm

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Kirsty Wark

Mark Beaumont

Jim Naughtie

Tickets Selling Fast!

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PITLOCHRY FESTIVAL THEATREpresents a Scottish Première Production

01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com

Book, Music and Lyrics byMEREDITH WILLSON

Based on the 20th Century Fox PictureStory by Valentine Davies Screenplay by George Seaton

Presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITEDon behalf of Music Theatre International of New York

The Green Park is one of Pitlochry’s best known landmarks, enjoying unrivalled views over Loch Faskally from its lochside position. The hotel is set in three acres of gardens at the western edge of the town; it is within strolling distance of the shops and is a pleasant walk from the Festival Theatre.

The Green Park is spacious and full of light; the public rooms are well appointed and restful and the bedrooms are neat and attractive. Sixteen of the bedrooms are at ground floor level. The whole hotel is non-smoking. Join us for Pre-theatre dinner.

Complement your visit to the theatre with a stay at The Green Park. Guests staying four days or more (on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis

during the Hotel's high season) will each be entitled to a complimentary theatre ticket for a show of their own choice. This complimentary ticket

can be for any section of the auditorium.

Theatre Ticket Offer

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Clunie Bridge Road, Pitlochry PH16 5JY Tel: 01796 473248 Fax: 01796 473520

[email protected] www.thegreenpark.co.uk

GREEN PARK

Pitlochry’s family run lochside location

Awarded ‘Scottish Hotel of the Year ~ 2015’ by The Good Hotel Guide

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PFT Summer Season 2015