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Dateline: 8th April, 2006
Spring in Perth This spring, Perth Theatre brings some of the best of Scotland’s visiting production companies to the city including two from the highly acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland. “We’ve got an excellent variety of productions this summer season,” says Ian Grieve, Creative Director of Perth Theatre. “From contemporary takes on classics, brand new writing to stage adaptations of an incredibly popular children’s book. Perth Theatre has something for you whether you’re young or old, like a laugh, something serious or enjoy nothing better than facing your fears.” The season kicks off with a production from the company that brought us Women on the Verge of HRT and Good Things, Spending Frank will have the audiences in tears of sympathy and laughter. The story follows Anna (played by Julie Austin) whose body clock is on fast forward and is desperate for true love and a baby. In order to get what she wants she decides to exact revenge on her lying husband. While swinging from frenetic comedienne to emotional wreck, she has to cope with yuppie estate agent Victoria, sex-mad Margaret, Bobby the bereavement counsellor and a whole host of other characters that get embroiled in her increasingly worrisome and chaotic life. Showing from 19th to 22nd April. Perfect Pie is directed by one of Scotland’s foremost actresses, Maureen Beattie and is showing from 26th to 29th April. It’s an intriguing drama about childhood, friendship and old secrets. Centered around the reunion of two long-estranged friends, Patsy now a farm wife and mother, and Marie (now known under her stage name of Francesca) is a celebrated actress. When the two meet after being separated since their teens, the reunion floods them with memories of childhood friendship and times of deep wounding, which brings a buried memory and a wild secret from the past crashing to the present. A delightful yet frightening treat for all the family comes in the musical pandemonium The Wolves in the Walls from the National Theatre of Scotland. Based on the book by maverick writer of comics Neil Gaiman, this production features a cast of puppets and actors, musicians and scenery, creating an intensely visual and raucous treat. This scary yet fascinating fairytale follows young Lucy who hears creeping, creaking, crumpling noises coming from behind the wallpaper and knows that there are wolves in her house. “It’s bats,” asserts her big brother, “Mice,” insists her mother, “Rats,” confirms her father. But Lucy knows and informs everyone “If the wolves come out of the walls, it’s all over.” Lucy's battle with the wolves is only just beginning. At Perth Theatre from 3rd to 6th May. The visiting season comes to a dramatic conclusion with Chris Hannan’s Elizabeth Gordon Quinn also presented by The National Theatre of Scotland. This production was last performed in Perth just over a decade ago and is widely considered to be one of the best women’s roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre. This contemporary classic, is set against the Glasgow rent strike in 1915 with its heroine, the proud, eponymous, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn. She would rather starve than give up her precious piano; although she can’t play a note it sets her apart from her impoverished neighbours, or so she thinks. Elizabeth Gordon Quinn remains as startlingly relevant today as when it was first performed, see it in Perth from 10th to 13th May. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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