PITLOCHRY
Festival Theatre

Returning to his family home, an artist comes to clear his mother’s house ready for sale. He revisits his childhood and his first love and the life he left behind in London. And his mother’s pet cockatoo, Chandler. He heads out on the hill to draw – and the forest moves as he draws it.

Miss Georgina Ballentine is famous for catching the largest ever Salmon (64lbs) on the River Tay at Dunkeld. This piece imagines her challenge and her acceptance by the nature surrounding the river.

Laura and James are doing a virtual sponsored walk up Scheihallion in memory of their mum, who loved the landscape surrounding the River Tay.

A woman returns home and visits her first love: the River Tay.

Georgina Ballentine, the woman who caught the biggest fish on the Ricer Tay, never married. In this piece, she finds out about the death of the man she fell in love with when another declares his love.

An ex-soldier seeks peace and solace on the River Tay. The history of the place and the nature surrounding help him move on.

The Lady of the Woods, the birch tree, speaks to someone seeking understanding by looking at her. More than myth, she is science and encourages the enchanted onlooker to be more like her.

Learning about the power and danger of water from her Grandmother growing up, a woman drives her dream of becoming an engineer.

The River Goddess Tatha is placed next to a teenaged girl in a piece about happiness, nature, youth and forces of nature.

After 22 Mays apart, the magic of the forest brings two people back together.

Focusing on trees at the start of Autumn, A Passing Dance imagines the preparation for and spectacle of a leaf’s descent from a tree.

A woman takes herself off from her life to find something new. By swimming in the cold water river, leaving her world and entering another, she re-finds her past, a woman who inspired her and freedom.

A woman who has lost control of her body imagines her wildness and freedom through the image of the River Tay.

A message in a bottle is found, uncorked and messages of love are passed on to the people who are missed and need to hear them.

Another visit to the wood to talk to the trees and a man justifies his love for his friends, the trees and the magic he finds in the forest.

On an answer machine, we hear a message left for a loved one. A woman has walked with Spring from London to Aberfeldy on a determined road to recovery.