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For Immediate release.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre announces Ensemble for 2025 season.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is delighted to announce its Ensemble for its 2025 season which takes place this summer between May and September.
The 21 strong Ensemble will feature Adam Buksh (The Great Replacement and Tamam Shud, A Play, a Pie and a Pint); Chris Coxon (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and The Wizard of Oz, Watermill Theatre); Celeste Collier (Rishi Sunak’s Doing A Musical, Waterloo East Theatre and One Man, Two Guvnors, Devonshire Park Theatre); Tyler Collins (Part of the Century, Òran Mór and Sunshine on Leith, Leeds Playhouse)); Susan Coyle (The Race to 1984, Firebrand Theatre and Outlander and Taggart); Stephanie Cremona (Cinderella and A Christmas Carol, Dundee Rep); Caitlin Forbes (The Stamping Ground, Eden Court/Raw Material and A Christmas Carol, Dundee Rep); Molly Geddes (Lockerbie, Netflix) and April Nerissa Hudson (Good for A Girl, Birmingham Rep and A Christmas Carol, Derby Theatre).
The ensemble will also feature Leah Jamieson (Pride and Prejudice* (* Sort of), West End and Tour); Blythe Jandoo (Gypsy and The Maggie Wall, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Oraine Johnson (Welfare and The Jungle Book, Derby Theatre); Jerome Lincoln (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, National Theatre); Ryan J Mackay (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, West End, Kidnapped, National Theatre of Scotland and Lockerbie, Netflix); Keith Macpherson (A Streetcar Named Desire and Sunshine on Leith, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Alyson Orr (Sunshine on Leith, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Bend it Like Bertie, Pavillion Theatre, Glasgow); David Rankine (The Fair Maid of the West, Royal Shakespeare Company and Kidnapped, National Theatre of Scotland); Alexander Service (Heathers The Musical, Soho Place, West End/UK Tour/The Other Palace, London); Fiona Wood (Sunshine on Leith and Peter Pan and Wendy, Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and introducing newcomers Eden Barrie and Louis Newman.
This year’s Ensemble will feature in the Auditorium productions of Grease (18 June -27 September), which is being co-produced with Blackpool Grand Theatre; Elizabeth Newman’s new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic tale The Great Gatsby (27 Jun – 25 September), produced with Derby Theatre; Patrick Barlow’s hilarious slapstick comedy The 39 Steps (11 July – 26 September) and the revival of the Theatre’s much loved production of Sunshine on Leith (25 July – 27 September).
Members of the Ensemble will also feature in the Studio productions of the première of Milly Sweeney’s debut play Water Colour (9 – 17 May), co-produced with Byre Theatre and Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland; the return of Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed (30 May – 14 June) co-produced with Firebrand Theatre Company, as well as the premiers of Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir’s new play This Is A Gift (24 June – 11 Sept); Shonagh Murray’s new Scottish musical Nessie (9 July – 16 August), co-produced with Capital Theatres and finally John Binnie and Alyson Orr’s new musical play A Toast Fae The Lassies (29 August – 24 September).
For further information and tickets for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre 2025 season visit pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com
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Notes to Editors
2025 SEASON DATES
9-17 May – Water Colour – Studio
30 May-14 June - Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed – Studio
18 June – 27 September – Grease – Main Auditorium
24 June – 11 September – This is a Gift – Studio
27 June – 25 September – The Great Gatsby– Main Auditorium
9 July – 16 August - Nessie – Studio
11 July – 26 September – The 39 Steps – Main Auditorium
25 July – 27 September – Sunshine on Leith – Main Auditorium
29 August – 24 September – A Toast Fae The Lassies – Studio
Press Performances 2025
Tue 13 May at 8pm & Wed 14 May at 2.30pm – Water Colour – Studio
Wed 4 June at 2.30pm - Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed – Studio
Friday 20 June at 7pm – Grease – Main Auditorium (Also Sat 21 June at 2pm)
Sat 28 June at 2.30pm – This is a Gift – Studio (Double bill available on Thu 3 July at 2.30pm with Grease at 7.30pm)
Wed 2 July at 2pm – The Great Gatsby– Main Auditorium (Double bill available with Grease at 7.30pm)
Wed 16 July at 2pm – The 39 Steps – Main Auditorium (Double bill available with Grease at 7.30pm)
Thu 17 July at 2.30pm - Nessie – Studio (Double bill available with The Great Gatsby at 7.30pm)
Wed 30 July at 2pm – Sunshine on Leith – Main Auditorium (Double bill available with Grease at 7.30pm)
Thu 4 September at 2.30pm – A Toast Fae The Lassies – Studio (Double bill available with The Great Gatsby at 7.30pm)
Accessible Performances
Audio Described Performances
Grease 30 Aug 7.30pm
The Great Gatsby 1 Aug 7.30pm
Grease 6 Aug 2pm
The Great Gatsby 10 Aug 2pm
The 39 Steps 28 Aug 7.30pm
The 39 Steps 3 Sep 2pm
Sunshine on Leith 13 Sep 7.30pm, 14 Sep 2pm
BSL Interpreted Performances
The Great Gatsby 5 Sep 2pm
The 39 Steps 6 Sep 7.30pm
Captioned Performances
The 39 Steps 21Aug 2pm
Grease 23 Aug 2pm
The Great Gatsby 30 Aug 2pm
Sunshine on Leith 14 Sep 2pm
Relaxed and Dementia Friendly Performances
The Great Gatsby 20 Aug 2pm
Grease 6 Sep 2pm
The 39 Steps 12 Sep 2pm
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Since 1951, Pitlochry Festival Theatre has been the artistic heart and soul of Highland Perthshire. Attracting over 100,000 visitors every year, we’re more than simply a place to come and see a show – we’re Scotland’s leading producer of musical theatre, a champion of ensemble practice and the country’s only rurally-located, major arts organisation. Our purpose is to improve lives by sharing Pitlochry with the world and the world with Pitlochry. Our aim is to create life-enhancing experiences in our Theatre and its glorious eleven-acre campus that encompasses the magical Explorers Garden. In everything we do, we are committed to nurturing an exciting creative and cultural future for Scotland.
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