The programme for
the Gathering includes a trip to the Pitlochry Festival
Theatre on Monday Night.
The
theatre's calendar for the 2014 Summer season has
recently been published and announces that the play to
be featured on 25th August 2014 will
be
"Passing Places" by Stephen
Greenhorn.
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This
comedy, which contains strong language, was last perfomed at
the Festival Theatre in 2007. The Scotsman described it as “A
real treat of substantial yet light-touch comedy, for any
audience interested in the times we live in.” *****
The Theatre
website provides the following synopsis:
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"A map’s not for telling you where to go. What it tells you is
exactly where you are. It only describes your position. You
have to decide your own destination and
journey." **** Alex and Brian: a
couple of Motherwell lads going nowhere. Until, that is, Alex
unfairly gets the sack from the sports shop where he works
and, in a moment of drunken retribution, ‘borrows’ a surfboard
from the window display and press gangs Brian into joining him
in a clapped-out Lada heading for Thurso – Surf Capital of the
North! **** But unfortunately
for our two heroes, this particular surfboard happens to be
the prized possession of the shop’s owner, the psychotic
gangster Binks. And no sooner does Binks discover the theft
than he's donning the leathers, kick starting the Suzuki – and
beginning an epic pursuit. **** En route to Thurso,
travelling the winding single track roads, Alex and Brian
expect to encounter the Scotland of the history books.
Instead, they discover a land they never knew existed. There's
bothy culture, castles and ceilidhs, and spectacular
landscapes, right enough; but digital crofters, Heilan'
hippies, mystic surf gurus, installation artists, Ukrainian
mariners and Canadian geologists? Where did they all come
from? ****
To view the brochure for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre's
entire Summer 2014 season please click here.
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Alternatively click here to visit
the Theatre's website
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The Gathering
programme suggests that members may wish to consider having
dinner before the show in the Festival Restaurant at
the Theatre. Please click here to
view some typical summer menus.
