Pitlochry Festival Theatre is ready to open its 2025 Studio season with the world première of Milly Sweeney’s debut play Water Colour, winner of the St Andrews Playwriting 2024 Award which goals to assist and develop the following era of Scottish playwrights.
Produced in partnership with the Byre Theatre and Playwright’s Studio Scotland, Water Colour is directed by award-winning actor and director Sally Reid (Scot Squad, BBC Scotland and Shirley Valentine, Pitlochry Festival Theatre). It shall be at Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Studio from 9 till 17 May after which head to the Byre Theatre for 28 and 29 May.
Esme is at an all-time low, struggling together with her research and her artwork. She finds herself standing on the railing of one of many bridges that crosses the Clyde, which results in an opportunity encounter with a boy who modifications her life eternally. A boy who she could by no means see once more. Could Esme now lastly discover the highway to restoration, therapeutic, and self-acceptance?
Meanwhile, Harris is prospering. He is lastly shifting out of his mum’s home and beginning a brand new job in a high-end restaurant kitchen. One evening, while strolling dwelling from work, he sees a lady about to do one thing terrible. A lady who he could by no means see once more. If Harris had been to battle along with his psychological well being, who could be there for him? Would his mates take him significantly?
Water Colour is a narrative about connection, psychological sickness, and opening your self as much as the world.
Established in 2022, The St Andrews Playwriting Award encourages and helps the following era of playwrights dwelling in Scotland. The award supplies a key alternative for an rising skilled playwright’s profession improvement. The winner of the Award acquired a fee and an expert manufacturing, co-produced by Pitlochry Festival Theatre and the Byre Theatre, which is carried out in the primary auditorium of The Byre Theatre and in Pitlochry Festival Theatre Studio Theatre.
The manufacturing’s solid will characteristic Molly Geddes (Lockerbie, Netflix) as Esme and Ryan J Mackay (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, West End, Kidnapped, National Theatre of Scotland and Lockerbie, Netflix) as Harris. All different roles shall be performed by the solid
Director Sally Reid stated:
“I’m thrilled to be coming again to Pitlochry this yr to direct Water Colour, Milly Sweeney’s debut play. The first time I learn it the characters sprang off the web page and I used to be immersed of their vivid worlds.
Milly’s play delves rapidly and succinctly into the heads and hearts of the characters as they navigate by way of the complexities of staying afloat of their younger grownup lives, surviving in Glasgow, a brand new metropolis to each of them. A metropolis which they traverse by way of within the motion of the play. It brings hope when the characters imagine there’s none and hopefully the viewers will really feel that sense of uplifting hope once they go away.”
Water Colour runs within the Studio at Pitlochry Festival Theatre from 9 till 17 May after which will head to the Byre Theatre on 28 and 29 May.
Tickets and additional info can be found from the Box Office on 01796 484626 or on-line at pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre Listings:
Studio
Eve perf at 8pm:
May: 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17
Mat perf at 2.30pm:
May: 10, 14, 15 & 17
Ticket costs: From £15
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