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Event Reviews Headlines

• John Hegley at the Watermill
• A Triumph - 'Winter Words' at Pitlochry Festival Theatre

2006 Season at PFT

Reviews by Kathleen Reid

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

by Oscar Wilde

This stylish and typically witty exposé of the Victorian Establishment is a razor-sharp study of a world that values image above integrity.

 SUMMER LIGHTNING

adapted by Giles Havergal, from the novel by P.G. Wodehouse

Prize-winning pigs, misplaced manuscripts, risqué romances all lead to midsummer mayhem at Blandings Castle!

 MAN OF THE MOMENT

by Alan Ayckbourn

The Scottish première of Ayckbourn’s Olivier Award-winning and savagely funny comedy about fame, fortune and the media.

 CHIMNEYS

by Agatha Christie

The European Première of Agatha Christie’s ‘lost’ play, Chimneys, an early thriller set in the world of 1920s power politics - an ingenious tale of murder & intrigue brought vividly to life.

 THE GRAPES OF WRATH

adapted by Frank Galati, from John Steinbeck’s masterpiece

The story of the Joad family’s epic journey across America during the Great Depression.

 HAMLET: The Actors' Cut

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare returns to PFT after 23 years, in the short, dynamic First Quarto version of his greatest tragedy that reworks Hamlet into a crowd-pleasing thriller.