STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Shades of Tay, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Lockdown diversions from the heart of Scotland
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
DESCRIBED as a love letter to Scotland, Shades of Tay is intended as “a gift to those isolated by Covid-19 and those who feel isolated from theatre in general.”
QUIRKY: Blythe Jandoo in This is Not Schiehallion
Thus a line-up of 18 British playwrights, commissioned by Pitlochry Theatre’s artistic director Elizabeth Newman — among them Timberlake Wertenbaker, Jo Clifford and Hannah Khalil — are producing weekly audio dramas, podcasts and short films performed by members of the theatre’s summer season’s ensemble.
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