Pitlochry Festival Theatre Announce Summer Ensemble For 70th Anniversary Season
The season will include Adventures with the Painted People, Jekyll and Hyde, The Wind in the Willows, A Night by the River Tay, and more!by BWW News Desk
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced the Summer Ensemble for its 70th anniversary season which will take place in the picturesque grounds of the Perthshire theatre from the end of this month.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre s exciting 22-strong Summer Ensemble will feature BAFTA Scotland award-winning Jane McCarry (Isa Drennan in Still Game, BBC Scotland and Granny Murray in Me Too!, CBBC); Colin McCredie (Taggart, ITV and River City , BBC Scotland); Lauren Samuels (We Will Rock You, Bend it Like Beckham and Grease, all West End and Cinderella, Lyric Hammersmith); Daniel Boys (The Boys in the Band, The Park Theatre and West End, Avenue Q, Tommy and Spamalot, all West End); playwright Jo Clifford; Richard Colvin (Sunshine on Leith, UK tour and A Christ
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