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The Home Season: Pitlochry Festival Theatre

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The Home Season: Pitlochry Festival Theatre

As the curtain comes down on another packed season of theatre in the Central Belt, and with the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe waiting in the wings, it’s worth casting an eye over the superb series of Scottish plays currently running at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

The season, conceived to mark the Year of Homecoming, includes the first revival in Scotland since 1983 of Victor Carin’s Scots language translation of Goldoni’s farce, The Servant O’ Twa Maisters, about a manservant who attempts to juggle two jobs, with chaotic consequences. Meanwhile, JM Barrie’s 1908 comedy What Every Woman Knows focuses on a young ambitious railway porter who meets his meal ticket – and his match – in the formidable Maggie Wylie.

Literary adaptations include Jay Presson Allen’s enduring version of Muriel Spark’s classic of sex and power, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, as well as the world premier of Whisky Galore – A Musical!, based on Compton Mackenzie’s funny, romantic novel about what happens when the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground with fifty thousand cases of whisky on a remote Hebridean island.

And there are a couple of contemporary classics on offer too, including Liz Lochhead’s Good Things, in which a newly single fiftysomething charity shop volunteer embarks on a new life of speed and cyber dating, and Simon Donald’s black comedy, The Life Of Stuff, in which a gangster exacts vengeance from beyond the grave.

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, until Sat 17 Oct. For full details see www.list.co.uk/theatre

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