Absurd Person Singular

The Pitlochry season is already well under way, with productions of High Society, Mary Rose and Alan Bennett’s People. But now, over the Perthshire horizon, comes one of the greatest plays by the great Alan Ayckbourn. First seen in 1972, Absurd Person Singular is a hilarious and haunting three-act state-of-the-nation play set in the very different kitchens of the upwardly-mobile Hopcrofts, the “old money” Brewster-wrights, and the middle-class Jacksons, during three disastrous social events. Richard Baron directs a fine Pitlochry cast, in a remarkable drama of social change in Britain, on the brink of the Thatcher era. In repertoire at Pitlochry Festival Theatre until 12 October, 01796 484626.