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Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Welcome to Pitlochry Festival Theatre; a Theatre for everyone, a Theatre for a lifetime.
For over 70 years now, Pitlochry Festival Theatre has been Highland Perthshire’s artistic heart and soul. Established in 1951 as Scotland’s Theatre in the Hills, we offer a theatrical experience unique in the UK; a summer season performed in repertory, allowing audiences to enjoy nine performances, all performed by a resident company of actors.
We are proud to continue to be the nation’s largest producing Theatre located in beautiful Pitlochry reaching audiences and artists from across Scotland, and we cannot wait to spend next year deepening our relationships locally, regionally, and nationally.
Winter Words Festival 2025
21 - 23 February 2025
Returning for its twenty-first year, the Theatre hosts an extraordinary three-day programme of interesting events, entertaining performances, delicious literary lunches with award-winning chefs, and stimulating conversations, running from 21 to 23 February and curated by our new Artistic Director Alan Cumming.
The Winter Words Festival 2025 programme of authors includes Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart, celebrated crime writer Val McDermid, Mayflies and Caledonian Road author Andrew O’Hagan and broadcaster and journalist Kirsty Wark, who will all be in conversation about their work with Alan Cumming, whose own career is the subject of a Q&A on the opening morning of the Festival.
FRIDAY 21 FEBRUARY
Breakfast with Alan Cumming - 9.30am
Q&A with Alan Cumming - 10.30am
Fierce Salvage: Contemporary Scottish Publishing with 404 Ink and Titilayo Farukuoye chaired by Heather Parry - 12pm
Carina Contini: Literary Lunch - 1.15pm
A Room of One's Own: A play adapted from the writings of Virginia Woolf by Firebrand Theatre - 3pm
Michael Pedersen in Conversation with Alan Cumming - 4.30pm
Andrew O'Hagan in Conversation with Alan Cumming - 7pm
SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY
Finlay Wilson: Yoga Session with the 'Kilted Yogi' - 10am
Arun Sood chaired by Amina Shah - 10.30am
Chris Carse Wilson: A Running and Reading Event - 11am
James Jauncey in conversation with First Minister, John Swinney - 12pm
Sarah Rankin: Literary Lunch - 1.15pm
Liz Lochhead in conversation with Andrew O'Hagan - 3pm
The Race to 1984: A Rehearsed Play Reading by Richard Baron - 4.30pm
Kirsty Wark in conversation with Alan Cumming - 7pm
SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY
Finlay Wilson: Yoga Session with the 'Kilted Yogi' - 10am
Peter MacQueen: The Highland Hutter - 10.30am
Chris Carse Wilson: A Running and Reading Event - 11am
Jo Sharp: Geographer Royal - 12pm
Gareth Cole: Literary Lunch - Cafe Canna - 1.15pm
Ghillie Başan: Food, Whisky, Life - 3pm
Val McDermid in conversation with Alan Cumming - 4.30pm
Douglas Stuart in conversation with Alan Cumming - 7pm
Summer Season 2025
Our Summer Season 2025 runs from May - September 2025 and includes premières, new musicals, revivals and returning productions.
Main Auditorium productions include the musicals Grease, produced with Blackpool Grand Theatre, Elizabeth Newman’s new stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, co-produced with Derby Theatre; Patrick Barlow’s hilarious adaptation of The 39 Steps and the return of the Theatre’s acclaimed production of Sunshine on Leith.
The Studio season includes the premières of Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir This is a Gift, which featured in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 37 Plays readings in 2023; Milly Sweeney’s new play Water Colour, co-produced with the Byre Theatre; Nessie, a new Scottish musical by Shonagh Murray about the Loch Ness Monster, co-produced with Capital Theatres, and A Toast Fae The Lassies, John Binnie and Alyson Orr’s new musical play that explores the life of Robert Burns through the perspectives of the three women who knew him best. The season will also see the return of the hugely popular Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed, in co-production with Firebrand Theatre Company.
Auditorium
Grease, 18 June - 27 September 2025
A Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Blackpool Grand Theatre Production
The Great Gatsby, 27 June - 25 September 2025
A Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Derby Theatre Production
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Elizabeth Newman
The 39 Steps, 11 July - 26 September 2025
A Pitlochry Festival Theatre Production
Sunshine on Leith, 25 July - 27 September 2025
A Pitlochry Festival Theatre Production
Originally conceived in partnership with Capital Theatres
Studio
Water Colour, 9 - 17 May 2025Presented by Byre Theatre and Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Written by Milly Sweeney
Byre Theatre in partnership with Playwrights' Studio, Scotland and Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed, 30 May – 14 June 2025
A co-production between Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Firebrand Theatre Company in association with Dr Kerri Andrews
This is a Gift, 24 June - 11 September 2025
By Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir
A Pitlochry Festival Theatre Production
Nessie, 9 July - 16 August 2025
Book, Music and Lyrics by Shonagh Murray
A Capital Theatres and Pitlochry Festival Theatre Production
A Toast Fae the Lassies, 29 August - 24 September 2025
A Pitlochry Festival Theatre Production
Written and directed by John Binnie, musical arrangements and additional music by Alyson Orr, songs and poetry by Robert Burns
Tickets and more information on our website, www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com
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