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Thark is a rip roaring hilariously inventive farce and is showing at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Don't miss it! < >

Thark is a rip roaring hilariously inventive farce and is showing at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Don't miss it!

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This Happy Breed by Noel Coward at Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a great show and will have you laughing along the way.

This Happy Breed by Noel Coward at Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a great show and will have you laughing along the way.

This Happy Breed is a great show with a superb cast and set.

This Happy Breed is a great show with a superb cast and set.

This Happy Breed Written in the spring of 1939, but rarely seen on the stage after David Lean’s magnificent film version was released in 1944, Coward’s saga of the lives and loves of one lower-middle-class family and their friends during a turbulent period of history.

This Happy Breed Written in the spring of 1939, but rarely seen on the stage after David Lean’s magnificent film version was released in 1944, Coward’s saga of the lives and loves of one lower-middle-class family and their friends during a turbulent period of history.

Warm hearted and funny, This Happy Breed by Noel Coward at Pitlochry Festival Theatre tells stories of one British family in the turbulent years between worls wars

Warm hearted and funny, This Happy Breed by Noel Coward at Pitlochry Festival Theatre tells stories of one British family in the turbulent years between worls wars

Thark – a very strange house, inhabited by an even stranger butler and several things that go bump in the night – has other plans . . .

Thark – a very strange house, inhabited by an even stranger butler and several things that go bump in the night – has other plans . . .

Ben Travers’s classic 1927 Aldwych farce, in a glorious new version by Clive Francis, is fast-paced, rip-roaring and hilariously inventive: perfect Summer entertainment!

Ben Travers’s classic 1927 Aldwych farce, in a glorious new version by Clive Francis, is fast-paced, rip-roaring and hilariously inventive: perfect Summer entertainment!

RolePlay is the final play in the Damsels in Distress trilogy and it definitely finishes the trilogy off with a bang!

RolePlay is the final play in the Damsels in Distress trilogy and it definitely finishes the trilogy off with a bang!

RolePlay is the third play in the Damsels In Distress trilogy and is classic Ayckbourn. If you enjoyed PFT’s hugely popular A Chorus Of Disapproval in 2013, you won’t want to miss this!

RolePlay is the third play in the Damsels In Distress trilogy and is classic Ayckbourn. If you enjoyed PFT’s hugely popular A Chorus Of Disapproval in 2013, you won’t want to miss this!

RolePlay is part of the damsels in distress trilogy and is a hilarious tale of love, lust and the hazards of dinner parties.

RolePlay is part of the damsels in distress trilogy and is a hilarious tale of love, lust and the hazards of dinner parties.

GamePlan is the first play in Ayckbourn’s dazzling Damsels In Distress trilogy.  See it at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Pitlochry, Perthshire.

GamePlan is the first play in Ayckbourn’s dazzling Damsels In Distress trilogy. See it at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Pitlochry, Perthshire.

GamePlan at Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a dark comedy and will have you gripped from the start to the finish.

GamePlan at Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a dark comedy and will have you gripped from the start to the finish.

GamePlan is the first play in Ayckbourn’s dazzling Damsels In Distress trilogy, GamePlan is a sharp, contemporary black comedy of metropolitan morals and mishaps.

GamePlan is the first play in Ayckbourn’s dazzling Damsels In Distress trilogy, GamePlan is a sharp, contemporary black comedy of metropolitan morals and mishaps.

FlatSpin is hilarious and as you can tell by this picture the cast are fantastic!

FlatSpin is hilarious and as you can tell by this picture the cast are fantastic!

FlatSpin is part of the Damsels in Distress trilogy. Each play in the trilogy is an entirely separate, stand-alone story, featuring completely different characters. Uniquely, however, all three plays share the same actors - and the same set!

FlatSpin is part of the Damsels in Distress trilogy. Each play in the trilogy is an entirely separate, stand-alone story, featuring completely different characters. Uniquely, however, all three plays share the same actors - and the same set!

FlatSpin is an hilarious, high-energy story of mistaken identity, magic and misdirection, featuring twist, after twist, after twist.

FlatSpin is an hilarious, high-energy story of mistaken identity, magic and misdirection, featuring twist, after twist, after twist.

itlochry Festival Theatre is a unique British theatrical phenomenon. This year they are showing the world reknowed broadway classic that is Carousel. If you loved The Pitlochry Festival Theatre's previous productions of Broadway classics, such as My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly! and Kiss Me, Kate, you’ll love this!

itlochry Festival Theatre is a unique British theatrical phenomenon. This year they are showing the world reknowed broadway classic that is Carousel. If you loved The Pitlochry Festival Theatre's previous productions of Broadway classics, such as My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly! and Kiss Me, Kate, you’ll love this!

The set is spectacular for the well known and fantastic Oscar Hammerstein II broadway show, Carousel. See it at Pitlochry Festival Theatre this Summer 2016.

The set is spectacular for the well known and fantastic Oscar Hammerstein II broadway show, Carousel. See it at Pitlochry Festival Theatre this Summer 2016.

Carousel at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in gorgeous Perthshire is definitely not to be missed.  With a fantastic cast and set it's a great combination for a great night at the theatre!

Carousel at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in gorgeous Perthshire is definitely not to be missed. With a fantastic cast and set it's a great combination for a great night at the theatre!

The well-known and brilliant show, Carousel Book by Oscar Hammerstein II is currently showing at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

The well-known and brilliant show, Carousel Book by Oscar Hammerstein II is currently showing at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

The Pitlochry Festival Theatre also known as the theatre in the hills has a great array of shows on throughout the year.  You can even see several shows in one day!

The Pitlochry Festival Theatre also known as the theatre in the hills has a great array of shows on throughout the year. You can even see several shows in one day!

Pitlochry Festival Theatre Summer Season

We're huge fans of Pitlochry Festival Theatre here at Small City and a jaunt up the road to one of their fantastic productions is guaranteed to be a great night out. 

The ‘Theatre in the Hills' has an international reputation for the high quality and scale of its productions, drawing over 100,000 visitors from throughout the UK and abroad every year to enjoy a unique repertoire system which allows you to see a different show every night of the week - two on matinée days!

Pitlochry Festival Theatre was established in 1951 and originally housed in a tent, it now occupies a beautiful building in a magnificent setting on the banks of the Tummel River, surrounded by the spectacular hills and mountains of Highland Perthshire.

Summer Shows 2016 

For the first time since 1996, Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) is presenting seven plays for their traditional and much-loved repertoire season.

  • Carousel – Described by Time Magazine as the greatest musical of the 20th Century, Carousel is the first ever Rogers & Hammerstein musical to be staged at PFT. More >>>
  • Thark – The Scottish première of Clive Francis’s acclaimed 2013 revision of Ben Traver’s haunted house farce from 1927. More >>>
  • This Happy Breed – Noel Coward’s classic tale of family life between two world wars sees the cast age 20 years before your eyes. More >>>
  • Hard Times - Stephen Jeffrey’s adaptation of Dickens thrilling story of betrayal and sacrifice is set against the background of the industrial revolution in 1840s Lancashire. More >>>

The final three plays comprise the first UK revival in over ten years of Ayckbourn’s extraordinary Damsels In Distress trilogy.  These three completely different modern comedies all have characters unique to each play but will all be performed on the same set by the same seven actors.

This is the first professional production of the entire trilogy since its 2002 run in the West End.

  • GamePlan - A sharp, contemporary black comedy of metropolitan morals and mishaps. More >>>
  • FlatSpin - With echoes of Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, FlatSpin is a hilarious, high-energy story of mistaken identity, magic and misdirection, featuring twist after twist. More >>>
  • RolePlay - A wickedly funny and sometimes poignant story of love, lust and the hazards of dinner parties. More >>>

Alan Ayckbourn Trilogy Highlights

Although the plays are all stand-alone and can be enjoyed as individual shows in their own right, PFT will run two Trilogy Days, showing all three plays in a single day.

Dates:  Saturday Sept 24th, Saturday Oct 8th

In additional there are many points in the Summer where you can see all three plays over two days.

GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHER

Douglas McBride took all the pictures in this Gallery.  He loves a good theatre show and captures the moments perfectly.  Find out more about his photography here >>