Pitlochry Festival Theatre announces Ensemble for 2023 season
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced its Ensemble for the 2023 season, which runs between May and late September this summer.
The exciting 19-strong Ensemble will feature John Michie (Coronation Street, ITV); Kirsty Stuart (Othello, Frantic Assembly); Sally Reid (Shirley Valentine, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Shona White (Jack Absolute Flies Again, National Theatre); Benny Young (Coronation Street, ITV); Nalini Chetty (Cyrano, Citizens Theatre/NTS); Blythe Jandoo (A Mother’s Song: A New Folk Musical, Macrobert Arts Centre); Matthew Trevannion (War Horse, National Theatre); Patricia Panther (Peter Pan and Wendy, Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and Deirdre Davis Monarch of The Glen, Pitlochry Festival Theatre).
The ensemble will also feature Matthew Churcher (Animal Farm, National Tour/Fiery Angel & Birmingham Rep); Oliver Cookson (Hay Fever, Assembly Roxy); Rachael McAllister (Little Women, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Keith Macpherson (Stan and Ollie, BBC Films); Robbie Scott (Peter Pan and Wendy, Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Marc Small (The People We Hate At The Wedding, Amazon Prime); Ben Stock (Grease, West End); Joseph Tweedale (The Meaning of Zong, Bristol Old Vic); Jack Ward (Bridgerton, Netflix); Trudy Ward (As You Like It, Jupiter Theatre) and Kristin Weichen Wong (Field- Something For The Future Now, Edinburgh International Festival).
Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director Elizabeth Newman said about the talented Ensemble: “It has been an inspiring experience bringing together the Summer season Ensemble this year. We are thrilled to share the news of all the talented people who are coming to Pitlochry for the first time as well as some brilliant returning collaborators. We did a big open call again this year. And two of our wonderful ensemble members came from the open-call self-tape process and several others came from the Spotlight open process too.
“Every member of the Ensemble offers different skills and experiences to the season, which I am sure will help us to make rich and thrilling work for our audiences to enjoy. The actors in our Ensemble continue to be the life blood of the season and their hard work always has a profound effect on audiences and delights all our visitors.”
Running from 19 May until 30 September, the 2023 season Ensemble will feature in revivals of the legendary musical Gypsy (19 May - 30 September) and Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire (2 June – 30 September), the Scottish première of Emma Rice’s acclaimed stage adaptation of Noël Coward’s screenplay for the film Brief Encounter (16 June-29 September); Peter Arnott’s new play Group Portrait In A Summer Landscape (25 August – 28 September), co-produced by Pitlochry Festival Theatre with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and directed by The Lyceum’s Artistic Director David Greig and the première of acclaimed Scottish playwright Isla Cowan’s (She Wolf, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) new play To The Bone (18 August-29 September).
The Ensemble will also feature in the première of Elizabeth Newman’s new adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved classic story The Secret Garden (7 July-19 August) and the return of the Theatre’s acclaimed productions of Martin McCormick’s The Maggie Wall (9-28 June) and Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Lipstick, Ketchup and Blood (1-22 September), Lesley Hart’s adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 classic Sherlock Holmes adventure A Study in Scarlet.
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