Talented two announced as cast of first play in new Pitlochry ampitheatre
Two well-respected actors have been announced as the cast of ‘Adventures with the Painted People’Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s first play to be performed in its brand new amphitheatre.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre will premiere David Greig’s new play out in the open air with spectacular Perthshire hills as a backdrop to the ficticious story from Loch Tay’s ancient past.
The two-hander is performed in a new amphitheatre in the PFT Explorers Garden from June 10 to July 4.
Written by Geig, one of Scotland’s leading playwrights, Adventures with the Painted People will feature two extraordinary Scottish talents, Nicholas Karimi in the role of Lucius, and Kirsty Stuart, star of PFT’s 2019 production of‘Faith Healer’and BBC One’s‘Call the Midwife’series, as Eithne.
June’s production of Adventures with the Painted People is directed by PFT’s award-winning director,
Elizabeth Newman, with lighting design by Jeanine Byrne and music and sound design by Ben Occhipinti.
It is a love story exploring a possible history of the Tay valley and the power of writing.
Lucius is a cultured Roman officer, captured by the Picts and about to be sacrificed.
Eithne is a wise Pictish woman, who wants to record her people’s history in writing, a skill they do not yet have. She makes a deal - she will rescue Lucius, in exchange for him teaching her to write.
The Pict and the Roman soldier flee - not by road, the Romans have not built those yet, but down river.
Originally commissioned by Pitlochry Festival Theatre as part of the Shades of Tay project, the play was set to have its stage premiere in Pitlochry in July 2020. It subsequently became an acclaimed BBC Radio Three play in June last year, as part of BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine series.
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