Beer, comedy and rugby will have you in 7s heaven
Comrie and District Dramatic Society will be performing‘A Handful of Plays’this weekend.
With no less than five shorts on offer, Comrie Drama is all set to warm up the cold snap with its Springtime performances which continue tonight and on Saturday.
The White Church is the venue for the plethora of plays and a spokesperson for the group said:“Prepare for an evening of one-act plays and sketches featuring murder, talking effigies, a little romance, more murder, a cheating husband and a lady in a towel.
“While in‘Murder at the Festival’an intrepid inspector applies logic to solve the crime, Dick Piston, Hotel Detective, abandons all logic and reason when faced with a scantily clad young woman in ‘Murder by Midnight’.”
And clothing remains in short supply in the third sketch when a birdwatcher gets an eyeful in‘Spotted Dick’.
Meanwhile, the‘Sleepers’proves that “death us definitely do not part”,
And finally, back in the land of the living, ‘Secretarial Skills’tells a tale of love and other bruises.
Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 7.30pm. Adult content advisory.
Tickets from the White Church, Hansen’s Kitchen or by calling Ted Henderson on 07871 942164. The Perth Beer Festival is shaping up to be scrum-thing special for this year – with two days of events being lined up.
Tickets are selling fast for the Perthshire Rugby fundraiser which will boast a comedy night to kick things off ahead of the main events featuring music, barrels of beer and seven-a-side rugby.
The seventh outing of the annual event – which has grown in stature and popularity since it first started – is being sponsored by Tan International and will help Perthshire Rugby to deliver its community programme to support rugby in the Big County.
Festivities start with the Perth Comedy Night on Friday, May 5.
Comedians Fred MacAulay and Bruce Fummey will deliver a Perthshire take on humour, with those attending the night also invited to be among the first to sample Inveralmond Brewery’s new Edinburgh Pale Ale and Beltain varieties as well as the best of local favourites.
Supplies will be restocked for Saturday, May 6 where, from noon, fans can watch live rugby 7s, eat great food and enjoy a raft of craft beers including Titanic Brewery’s Plum Porter, Champion Beer of Britain, great food.
Entry to this event at the North Inch is free.
The Big Bash on the Saturday night will feature music from Perth’s own ‘The Solid Gold Band’.
Allan Brown, chief executive of event organiser, Perthshire Rugby, said: “Our team have worked hard to put together a fantastic line-up of events and tickets are selling fast.
“Book tickets or come down to the North Inch on the day and help us raise as much as we can for Perthshire Rugby”.
Tickets for Perth Beer Festival ‘Big Bash’ and Comedy night are £20 each and are available at the Perth Beer Festival website, www. perthbeerfestival.co.uk.
Jenny and Martin Robb star in Secretarial Skills Andy Nixon, Jim Annan and Dave Findlay at the 2016 event