Travesties

There’s plenty of fine entertainment in this year’s Pitlochry summer season, with shows like Chicago and Little Voice in the programme.

Fans of Pitlochry theatre at its best, though, will not want to miss Richard Baron’s sparkling production of Tom Stoppard’s brilliant 1974 fantasy Travesties, in which 20th century greats including Lenin, James Joyce, and the founder of the Dadaist art movement, Tristan Tzara, gather in peaceful Zurich during the First World War. The pace is breathless, Adrian Rees’s designs are superb; and a word-perfect Mark Elstob stars as Henry Carr, the minor British consular official who is our unreliable witness to events that shook the world.

In repertoire at Pitlochry Festival Theatre until October, 01796 484 626