Pitlochry Festival Theatre announces 2023 summer line up – Gypsy revival, A Streetcar Named Desire & more
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced its 2023 summer line up of shows.
Running 19 May – 30 September, the new season will include world and Scottish premières, musicals, revivals and returning production across the venue’s Auditorium, the newly opened Studio and the Theatre’s Amphitheatre spaces.
Auditorium productions will include one of the world’s greatest musicals Gypsy (19 May – 30 September) and Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire (2 June – 30 September) alongside the Scottish première of Emma Rice’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Brief Encounter (16 June – 29 September).
Further highlights include The world première of Scottish playwright Peter Arnott’s new play Group Portrait In A Summer Landscape (25 August – 28 September), co-produced with The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, the new Studio will produce the première of Scottish playwright Isla Cowan’s (She Wolf, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) new play To The Bone (18 August – 29 September) and the return of Martin McCormick’s acclaimed play The Maggie Wall (9 – 28 June) co-produced with Aberdeen Arts Centre, which will also go on tour.
Summer 2023 will also see Pitlochry Festival Theatre collaborate with A Play, A Pie and A Pint for the first time, beginning with The Great Replacement (3 – 8 July) by leading Scottish talent Uma Nada-Rajah and new musical Forever Home (11 – 16 September) by Pauline Lockhart and Alan Penman.
In the Amphitheatre will be the première of a new adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much loved The Secret Garden (7 July – 19 August) and the return of the 2022 season sold out production of Lesley Hart’s Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Lipstick, Ketchup and Blood (1 – 22 September) which is co-produced with the UK’s oldest producing theatre, OVO and will transfer to the Roman Theatre in St Albans later in the year.
Plus, the Theatre’s Riverbank will be transformed into an exciting arena for play and theatrical fun throughout the summer for people of all ages making use of Pitlochry’s wonderful landscape.
Elizabeth Newman, Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre said: “I am thrilled to be able to share our Pitlochry 2023 season with the world and we can’t wait to welcome the world to Pitlochry this summer. It’s a real mixture of different work for people to enjoy – musicals, big plays, new dramas and heartwarming stories.
“We are also partnering with lots of exciting Scottish organisations including Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh again, as well as Aberdeen Arts Centre and A Play, A Pie and A Pint for the first time. We are also excited to venture to OVO, Britain’s oldest Roman theatre. It’s great to be able to welcome lots of new artists and creatives to Pitlochry this summer, as well as to be reunited with some longstanding collaborators.”
For more information and tickets, visit www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com
