Pitlochry Competition Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh have introduced the world première of Group Portrait in a Summer time Panorama, a daring, humorous, and deeply considerate new play by award profitable Scottish playwright Peter Arnott about household and the forces that form Scotland right now.
Directed by Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh’s Creative Director David Greig, Group Portrait in a Summer time Panorama can have its world première at Pitlochry Competition Theatre from 25 August to twenty-eight September after which switch to the Royal Lyceum from 4 to 14 October.
Set in a Perthshire nation home through the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014, Group Portrait in a Summer time Panorama revolves round retired tutorial and political heavyweight George Rennie, and his fractured household and former college students, coming collectively for a dramatic reckoning. There are secrets and techniques to be uncovered and truths to be advised.
Group Portrait in a Summer time Panorama is an exploration of a lifestyle that’s coming to its finish, a household struggling to attach within the wake of political ache, the expertise of grief, and the beginnings, and endings of nice amorous affairs.
The thrilling forged will function John Michie (DI Robbie Ross in Taggart and Karl Munro in Coronation Avenue, each on ITV, and Man Self in Holby Metropolis, BBC) as Rennie; Sally Reid (PC Sarah Fletcher in Scot Squad, BBC Scotland and Shirley Valentine, Pitlochry Competition Theatre) as Emma; Nalini Chetty (Cyrano, Residents Theatre/NTS, Zinnie Hassoun in River Metropolis, BBC and ITV Drama Six-4) as Jitka; Benny Younger (Monarch of the Glen, Pitlochry Competition Theatre, Don Quixote – Man of Clackmannanshire, Dundee Rep and Perth Theatre, in addition to showing within the Oscar profitable movies Chariots of Hearth and Out of Africa (reverse Robert Redford and Meryl Streep) as Moon; Deirdre Davis (Eileen Donachie in River Metropolis, BBC Scotland and Monarch of The Glen, Pitlochry Competition Theatre) as Edie; Matthew Trevannion (Struggle Horse, Nationwide Theatre, The Curious Incident of the Canine within the Evening, West Finish and Othello, Frantic Meeting) as Charlie; Keith Macpherson (Ready for Godot, Residents Theatre and Stan and Ollie, BBC Movies) as Frank; Patricia Panther (Orphans and Glasgow Ladies, Nationwide Theatre of Scotland) as Kath and Robbie Scott (Gypsy, Pitlochry Competition Theatre) as Will.
The manufacturing is designed by Jessica Worrall, with lighting by Simon Wilkinson and sound by Pippa Murphy.
Playwright Peter Arnott is the author of some 50 professionally produced stage performs together with his adaptation of the novel Monarch of the Glen (Pitlochry Competition Theatre), which received the CATS Award for Greatest New Scottish Play of 2017/18, The Respiratory Home (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), Tay Bridge (Dundee Rep), Janis Joplin: Full Tilt (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and The Signalman (Traverse) which received the CATS award for 2019/20.
Peter Arnott stated:
“Group Portrait in a Summer time Panorama is, for me, each a welcome return to Pitlochry, and the possibility to do an enormous new play about who we’re, the place we’ve simply been, and the place we’d go now.
The play is concerning the complicated historical past behind each household snapshot. On this occasion, an ultra-liberal well-educated and well-fed Scottish household with a summer season home in Perthshire, dwelling the proper life within the good place on the good time.
The reality is that I’ve been fascinated by these individuals for thus lengthy…because the finish of the Eighties, in reality, that their lives and mine (and ours, I hope) are all so intertwined by now that I can’t inform the place actuality stops, and fiction begins. They’re very actual to me, and, with an excellent ensemble of actors, I’m thrilled that their actuality will quickly be taking up three dimensions in entrance of an viewers!”
Director David Greig added:
“I’m actually thrilled that The Lyceum and Pitlochry Competition Theatre are collaborating once more after our profitable work with Sound Stage through the pandemic, persevering with a partnership that began in 2020 with ‘Barefoot within the Park’. It is rather applicable that we’re collaborating on this explicit new play which is ready in a rustic home in Kinloch Rannoch. The collaboration between Pitlochry Competition Theatre, their summer season ensemble and The Lyceum permits us to understand an enormous, bold household drama set in modern Scotland. This would be the first play I’ve directed since Glory on Earth in 2017 and I’m actually excited by the possibility to discover Peter’s play which is intelligent, considerate, and infused with a comic book melancholy. It’s a play about time and about our occasions specifically. It’s an unbelievable privilege to have the ability to present it to audiences in Pitlochry and Edinburgh.”
Group Portrait in a Summer time Panorama runs at Pitlochry Competition Theatre from 25 August to twenty-eight September. Tickets are actually on sale and can be found from the Pitlochry Competition Theatre Field Workplace on 01796 484626 or on-line at www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.
The manufacturing will then switch to the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh from 4 to 14 October. Tickets can be found from The Lyceum field workplace on 0131 248 4848 or on-line at lyceum.org.uk.
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