Pitlochry Festival Theatre is thrilled to announce its Ensemble for the 2024 season, which runs between May and late September this summer season.
The thrilling 24- member Ensemble will function Irene Allan (Wilf, Traverse Theatre Company and Red Dust Road, National Theatre of Scotland); Lola Aluko (Medea, National Theatre of Scotland and The Demon Headmaster, CBBC); Fiona Bruce (Once, West End and Scrooge, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Oliver Cookson (A Streetcar Named Desire and The Secret Garden, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Chris Coxon (The Wizard of Oz, Watermill Theatre and Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, Leicester Curve/UK Tour); Theo Diedrick (Sleeping Beauty, Theatr Clwyd and The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood, The Barn Theatre); tenor David Douglas (The Descent O’ Orpheus Tae the Underwal, Scots Opera Project); Olivier award-nominated Kirsty Findlay (Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour, National Theatre of Scotland and Sonia Friedman Productions and Islander: The Musical, Helen Milne Productions, New York Off-Broadway, UK tour and London switch); Connor Going (Sunshine on Leith, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Footloose, West End, UK & International Tour); Charlotte Grayson (Sunshine on Leith, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and The Lord of the Rings, Watermill Theatre) and Nina Kristofferson (Nina Kristofferson’s Billie Holiday Story and Medea, Northern Broadsides).
This yr’s Ensemble will even function Signe Larsson (The Wizard of Oz, Watermill Theatre); Myles Miller (Alice In Wonderland, Liverpool Everyman Playhouse and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Leicester Curve and UK Tour); soprano Emma Morwood baritone Colin Murray; soprano Colleen Nicoll; Wendy Paver (The Blonde Bombshells of 1943 and Summer Holiday, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Footloose, UK tour); David Rankine (The Fair Maid of the West, Royal Shakespeare Company and Kidnapped, National Theatre of Scotland); Sally Reid (Scot Squad, BBC Scotland and Shirley Valentine, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Elizabeth Rowe (Made in Dagenham, Queens Theatre, Hornchurch / New Wolsey, Ipswich and One Man Two Guvnors, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Robin Simpson (The Railway Children, York Theatre Royal and Much Ado About Nothing, Northern Broadsides); Luke Thornton (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole the Musical, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Summer Holiday, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Luke Wilson (Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre) and mezzo-soprano Ulrike Wutscher.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director Elizabeth Newman mentioned in regards to the gifted Ensemble:
“I’m thrilled to share information of all of the unimaginable individuals who’ll be becoming a member of us this Season to type our 2024 Ensemble. They actually are essentially the most extremely gifted and inspirational group of artists. We can’t wait to make all our completely different summer season productions with them this yr.
We have met so many unimaginable folks over the previous 4 months and it has been an amazing privilege to undergo the casting course of to type this firm with the opposite administrators within the season -Adam Nichols, Douglas Rintoul, Ben Occhipinti, David Douglas, Richard Baron, and Sam Hardie.
The arrival of the Summer Ensemble marks a particular second within the yr, injecting a contemporary and vibrant vitality into the Theatre. The ardour, expertise and dedication of each particular person is what makes a summer season in Pitlochry so particular. And, in addition to setting the phases alight right here, this excellent firm will enterprise past Pitlochry, performing in St Albans, Ipswich, and Edinburgh.
It’s thrilling to think about what we’ll create for audiences inside, exterior, and on-line, as we proceed our mission to share Pitlochry with the world and the world with Pitlochry.”
This yr’s Ensemble will function in new revivals of the musicals Footloose (31 May-26 September), which is being co-produced with the New Wolsey Theatre, and the award-winning West End and Broadway musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (7 June-28 September), in addition to the world première of Frances Poet’s new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (21 June- 27 September), co-produced with OVO, and the return of the Theatre’s 2022 revival of the much-loved comedy Shirley Valentine (4 July-28 September) that includes the award-winning Sally Reid returning to the theatre within the title position.
The Ensemble will even function within the return of Elizabeth Newman’s acclaimed adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved traditional story The Secret Garden (12 July- 22 August) and the world premières of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Firebrand Theatre Company’s co-production of Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed (24 May- 6 July), Harry Mould’s debut play The Brenda Line (15 August-18 September) in addition to uniting with the Scots Opera Project to supply a Gaelic and Scots Language model of Purcell’s baroque masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas (31 August -15 September).
For additional data and tickets for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre 2024 season go to pitlochryfestivaltheatre
