Three contrasting roles for Perthshire actress
Dance music will draw clubbers from all over Scotland to Perth tomorrow night when two events make the Fair City centre of techno tunes.
Glasgow-based rave organiser Fraser Peacock is putting on a club night tomorrow at the Green Room with “awesome visuals, genre-defying sets and an atmosphere that will take you back to the classic days of the dance scene.”
He said:“It’s called Io with DJ GVR and DJ Mikey Clark, free entry from 9pm -1am. I’m hoping people will check it out and hopefully it will become a regular event.
“I’m aware that Rhumba at the Ice Factory is also on Saturday 23, so given both are offering the same genre of music, I’m saying to people, see what’s there, then come on to us at Io in the Green Room and make a real night of it.”
Fraser’s put on club nights in Perth in the past, but these days he feels the city lacks a choice of dedicated dance music spots. “Back in the day there was Curly Lloyds, but that’s gone and been turned into flats. Perth had Jazz Band for over 25s. There’s only the Ice Factory or the Loft now.” A member of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s 17-strong ensemble is feeling right at home - coming as she does from a Perthshire village.
Camrie Palmer, an actress taking several roles in the 2018 repertory season at PFT is a born-and-bred Perthshire lass, growing up in the little village of Abernyte in Carse of Gowrie.
Camrie lived there until achieving her dream of getting into drama school in Manchester.
Now she’s back in the county acting in Chicago, Quality Street, and Travesties, all of which have opened in Pitlochry over the last few weeks.
“I remember being a teenager and finding it rather annoying that the nearest bus stop was three miles away,” Camrie said of her rural roots. “But overall I loved growing up in the countryside.
“It’s lovely that when I go back, there are still the same people living there who were there when I was born. There’s a real sense of community that I think is pretty special.”
Camrie graduated from Manchester in 2015 and then went on to join the Citizens Theatre Company for a year under their actor internship scheme. Now living in Glasgow, she is always happy to get back to her Perthshire roots.
She was successful in making it through the highly competitive auditions for Pitlochry Festival Theatre, landing roles in three productions.
“Quality Street is a play about two sisters during the Regency era and how they navigate unmarried life.
“I am playing Susan, the older sister who has long since accepted her destiny to be an unmarried ‘old maid’ – but that doesn’t mean she’s not a hopeless romantic and has dreams of her beautiful younger sister, Phoebe, having the kind of romance she can only dream about now.
“Susan is such a joy to play: she is so kind-hearted and almost childlike in her hopeful outlook but depends heavily on her younger sister to be the ‘lion-hearted’ one.
“In Travesties I play Gwendolen, a character lifted from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
“Again, this is a costume drama but, every scene is a completely different style to the last. At its heart, this Tom Stoppard play is a humorous and accessible story of an ageing man retelling some of the most exciting years of his life...with the ‘odd’ mistake along the way.”
The popular musical Chicago needs no introduction, it sees Camrie showing off her dance moves and wearing another totally different get-up.
To catch Camrie in her debut season of PFT drama, call 01796 484626 or online at www. PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com DJ Mikey Clark will be at Io
Camrie Palmer plays Gwendolen in Travesties