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Looking for a lesson in how to be relentlessly optimistic in the face of existential dread? ☀️ Meet Winnie. 🎬 Watch the official trailer for HAPPY DAYS, Samuel Beckett’s extraordinary play from the Nobel Prize-winning writer - named by The Independent as one of the 40 greatest plays of all time. At its centre is one of theatre’s most extraordinary challenges: Winnie. Almost entirely fixed in one spot, she has to fill an entire world with her voice, memories, rituals, humour and sheer determinati

After hearing the many infectious laughs, sounds and chaos of a Chris Wilson choreography rehearsal, we knew we had to get a mic on him 🎙️ You’re welcome 👏🏻 You can catch the gorgeous dance moves behind all that chaos in I’LL BE SEEING YOU — opening at Pitlochry Festival Theatre next week ✨💎 📆 22 Sep – 11 Oct 2026

Can Siobhán Redmond and Forbes Masson sum up Happy Days in 60 seconds? ⏱️ We handed the stars of our upcoming production the ultimate challenge: explain Samuel Beckett's Happy Days before the clock runs out. Spoiler, it's not easy. 😵‍💫 A woman buried in the sand, a husband who barely speaks, and somehow one of the most life-affirming plays ever written... try fitting that into a minute. Watch them give it their best shot 👀 With just a week to go until opening night, don't miss your chance to see

What keeps you going when the world keeps closing in?🔥 That question sits right at the heart of Samuel Beckett’s HAPPY DAYS. Director Roxana Silbert gives us the lowdown on Beckett’s brilliantly strange, darkly funny story of love, routine, resilience and refusing to give up. At the centre of it all is Siobhán Redmond’s relentlessly optimistic Winnie, with Forbes Masson as Willie, her rather less talkative husband somewhere nearby. 🏖️ See our Studio transformed by HAPPY DAYS - a darkly funny sto

How do you build a giant sand mound around an actor who stays in almost exactly the same spot? 🤔 Go behind the scenes with Siobhán Redmond as our workshop and production teams begin creating the set for Samuel Beckett’s HAPPY DAYS at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Winnie spends almost the entire play buried in an ever-rising mound - meaning every centimetre of her position, height and sightline matters. 📆 Enter Winnie’s world as HAPPY DAYS transforms our Studio into a place of absurdity, optimism a

Drama school inspiration, Edinburgh Festival brilliance and peak West End camp. The range is outrageous. The Scottish writer, director, performer and panto icon Johnny McKnight gives us his Three Theatre Treasures - aka the three theatre shows he simply cannot shut up about. And if Johnny’s convinced you he has impeccable taste, catch him starring as Larry in WIPING MY MOTHER’S ARSE at Pitlochry until 5 Sep. #ThreeTheatreTreasures #JohnnyMcKnight #PitlochryFestivalTheatre

FINAL WEEK: WIPING MY MOTHER’S ARSE 📢 Audiences have been having their say on Iain Heggie’s sharp, tender Scottish dark comedy at Pitlochry Festival Theatre: ✨ “Absolutely amazing.” ✨ “Laughed from start to end.” ✨ “Funny, touching and emotional.” ✨ “Extremely funny and entertaining.” ✨ “Laughed, cried and learned.” A darky funny, deeply human play about ageing, care, guilt and buried secrets - with plenty of humour along the way. 🔥 Only a few performances left before it closes this Saturday, 5

The search for Pitlochry’s Next Top Followspot Operator is ON. 🔦👀 There’s just one problem… we don’t have one yet. Could it be you? ✨ We’re looking for someone local to Pitlochry to join our technical team for I’ll Be Seeing You and My Fair Lady. Think you’ve got the top three qualities? 👀 Apply via our website!

What are Ewan McGregor’s top three theatre productions or performances of all time? 🎭 Pitlochry Festival Theatre's Artistic Director Alan Cumming asks him to pick the ones that have stayed with him. What would make your three? 💬👇 Don't forget, you can see Alan and Ewan performing together in Supernova at Pitlochry Festival Theatre next year. But tickets are VERY limited so book while you can. #ThreeTheatreTreasures #PitlochryFestivalTheatre #EwanMcGregor #AlanCumming

Consider this your Post-it note reminder. 📌 Only 2 weeks left to see Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson in A History of Paper at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Tickets are disappearing fast with several shows now sold out. So don’t write it down for later. Book it now.🎟️ 📆 Running until 12 September. A Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Dundee Rep Theatre production. #alancumming #shirleyhenderson #ahistoryofpaper #uktheatre #scotland

You wanted another sneak peak of Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson singing? Say less. 🔊💛 Enjoy “What Use Is Paper?” - another little glimpse into the gorgeous music from Oliver Emanuel and Gareth William’s Scottish musical A HISTORY OF PAPER before the show opens THIS WEEK. 📆 See it first at Pitlochry Festival Theatre from 9 Aug – 12 Sep before it heads to Dundee Rep 16 - 19 Sep First seen at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this award-winning, tender and heart-wrenching musical is about a m

Get your tissues ready 🥹🤧 Step inside the rehearsal room as Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson reunite and prepare to perform together on stage for the first time! Here’s your first listen to “Turn Back the Page” from Oliver Emanuel & Gareth William’s beautiful Scottish musical A HISTORY OF PAPER!📝 First seen at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the award-winning musical is all about joy, grief and all the little things that make up your life. 📆 Pitlochry Festival Theatre, 9 Aug - 12 Sep 📆