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Series looking at the best in theatre, playwriting and live performance across the UK.

Broadcast from a new town or city each month, Opening Night gives listeners a backstage pass to the best in theatre, playwriting and live performance across the UK.

Opening Night: The Highlands

07/07/2018

The Highlands

BBC Radio 4 - Opening Night, The Highlands

Janice Forsyth visits Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the Perthshire highlands.

Janice Forsyth visits Pitlochry Festival Theatre, which this summer, is once again producing and performing six shows in daily rotation.

Janice Forsyth is going to Pitlochry Festival Theatre, which this Summer, is once again producing and performing 6 shows in daily rotation, which means you can see a different show every day, two on Wednesdays and Saturday. Its achieved by returning to the traditional repertory style of theatre with a cast of up to seventeen performers. The theatre has announced a new Artistic Director, Elizabeth Newman and Janice hears about the strong central women at the heart of the plays being staged including Rona Munro's The Last Witch, and behind the scenes, as she meet's the company's Associate Director Gemma Fairlie.

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