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Around The World In 80 Days

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Around the World in 80 Days

An adaptation by Mark Powell

From the novel by Jules Verne

Directed by Elizabeth Newman and Ben Occhipinti

Set Designer Elizabeth Newman

Costume Designer Natalie Fern

Lighting Designer Jeanine Byrne

Sound Designer Ben Occhipinti

Music Director Richard Colvin

Hold onto your top hats! From the team that brought you the hugely successful The Wind in the Willows comes Around the World in 80 Days!

When uptight Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg agrees to take a globe-trotting gamble he puts both his fortune and his life on the line. Grab your passport and pack your trunk to meet a kaleidoscope of colourful characters and exotic animals on a whistle-stop worldwide adventure.

It’s a sure bet you’ll take the journey of a lifetime from the banks of the River Tummel, around the world and back again!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Venue: Outdoor

Dates: 8 Jul – 17 Sep

Ticket prices: from £9, concessions available – call Box Office for more information.

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“Open-hearted spectacle”

The Stage

“playful retelling of the Jules Verne voyage with a cast full of bounce and brio”

The Guardian

Blythe Jandoo

Blythe Jandoo

Blythe trained at The Dance School of Scotland and subsequently The Arts Educational Schools, London.

Blythe’s theatre credits include, Jean in A Mother’s Song: A New Folk Musical (Macrobert Arts Centre) Belle in Beauty and the Beast (King’s Theatre Glasgow), Liz in Sunshine on Leith, Jean Passepartout in Around the World in 80 Days and Maggie in The Maggie Wall (Pitlochry Festival Theatre 2022), Princess Jasmine in Aladdin (SEC Armadillo), Ensemble in Rumi: The Musical in Concert (The London Coliseum), Ensemble in Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (The London Palladium 2021), Pinky in Bend It Like Beckham (North American premiere), Ensemble/Cover Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin (The Prince Edward Theatre, London), Ensemble in The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible), Cover Buffy/Ashley in Starlight Express (The Starlight Express Theatre, Bochum), Follies (The Royal Albert Hall), The Olivier Awards 2015 (Royal Opera House), and Tinker Bell in Peter Pan(Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow).

Her television, film and audio include, Return (GMAC Film), Be Like Elsie (Lothian Films), Aladdin (Walt Disney Pictures), Gold (Eros International), Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Pictures), The Great (Hulu), The Terrific Treevils (Watford Palace and Woodland Trust production), Rumi (original cast recording), The Shadow of Tay (The Scotsman Sessions), and Letter To… (Stellar Quines and Pitlochry Festival Theatre). Blythe also released her first EP with electro-pop band Arroh.
Connor Going

Connor Going

Connor trained at the University of Glasgow and Royal Academy of Music, London.

Theatre credits include: Chuck/Cover Ren in FOOTLOOSE (UK & International Tour), Piano Man in THE CHOIR OF MAN (USA Tour & Australia Tour), Otter in THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS and Donald in DONALD & BENOIT (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Musical Director/The Busker in INDECENT PROPOSAL (Southwark Playhouse) & Band Leader/Ensemble in A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Barn Theatre Cirencester).

Concert Credits include: Soloist for THE BEATLES ORCHESTRATED (Abbey Road Studios), Backing Vocalist for U2 AT THE BBC (Abbey Road Studios) & Soloist for AN EVENING OF THE GREATEST MUSICALS (Pitlochry Festival Theatre).

Connor is delighted to be returning to Pitlochry Festival Theatre again this summer, after making his PFT debut in 2021. He is excited to play his part in continuing to embrace and celebrate the return of live theatre and performance in Scotland.
James Hudson

James Hudson

Training: Performance Preparation Academy (PPA).

Credits whilst training: Nick Hurley in Flashdance – The Musical, Clifford Bradshaw in Cabaret and Danny in Baby.

Theatre credits include: Maurice Gibb in Saturday Night Fever (West End), Drummer in The Choir of Man (West End), Joker in The Choir of Man (Sydney Opera House, European, Australian & USA Tours) Alan-a-dale in Twang! (Union Theatre) Alternate Ray Davies/Understudy Dave & Pete in Sunny Afternoon (UK Tour) and Prince Charming in Cinderella (Stratford Arts House).

Twitter/Instagram: @JamesLeeHudson
Jessica Brydges

Jessica Brydges

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre includes: The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi (World premiere, Kenneth More Theatre), Peter Pan (Roman Theatre Open Air Festival), Robin Hood (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch), Me and the Girls (Regional Tour), The Merchant of Venice (Konstantin Velichkov, Bulgaria) and Europe’s largest Christmas show, the Thursford Christmas Spectacular.

Other work includes: Assistant Musical Director for a filmed stage production of the musical, Ordinary Days.

Marc Small

Marc Small

Marc Small is a London born actor who trained at Salford University achieving a Degree in Media and Performance. He was a finalist on the BBC New Comedy Awards in his final year of training.

Marc has appeared in numerous theatre productions, He played Tom Robinson in To Kill A Mockingbird (Manchester Theatre Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominee), Horatio (Hamlet),

Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), Crooks (Of Mice And Men) Robin Hood (Robin Hood) Dex (West End musical Daddy Cool) and DS Glenn Branson (Dead Simple).

He has appeared in popular TV shows such as The IT Crowd, Jonathon Creek, The Bill and The Sooty Show; And recently appeared in the Amazon Prime film The People We Hate At The Wedding with Ben Platt. He is currently part of the ‘Movie Nights In’ promotion for ITV, featuring in the Western Spoof advert Standoff At Sundown.

Marc has performed in a diverse range of shows at Pitlochry Festival Theatre including The Crucible, Heritage, North and South, Barefoot in the Park, Around the World in 80 Days and most recently Private Lives and Noises Off.
Nalân Burgess

Nalân Burgess

Theatre credits include: Welcome To Iran (The National Theatre, & Theatre Royal Stratford East), Out of Sorts (Theatre503), Where We Are: The Mosque (The Arcola), Citizen (The Space Theatre), My Beautiful Laundrette (Above The Stag), Nine the Musical (Edinburgh Festival)

Television credits include: The Sandman (Warner Bros/DC Comics) – coming to Netflix this year, Rude Boys (BBC3)

Short-plays include: Who’s Mom & Who’s Mama? (Theatre503), Sexual Assault (The Pleasance, London), Rage Room (Lyric Hammersmith), A Tree Called Max (The King’s Head), Horizon of the Irreversible Night (The Arcola), Dutty Wine (The Bunker)

Film credits include: Taarof, Meeting, House of Salem, Essex Boys: Retribution, He Who Dares

Radio and voice work including: Welcome To Iran (BBC Radio), An Undersea Story – Yakamoz/Bir Denizaltı Hikâyesi (Netflix – dubbing), The Offensive (Fiction podcast series), Elite: Dangerous (Videogame), Jackie The Ripper (Fiction podcast series), Boom (Fiction podcast series)
Rhiane Drummond

Rhiane Drummond

Training: BA (Hons) in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre at Bird College.

Theatre includes: Cover Heather Duke in Heathers (Original UK Tour); Kathy, cover Judy Bernly in 9 to 5 the Musical (Savoy Theatre);Cover Deena Jones and Michelle Morris in Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre); Lead Singer/Dionne in Hair (West End LIVE); Ortisha, cover Clara and Louise in Ghost -the Musical (Asian tour); understudy Gary Coleman, Second Arm, Mrs T and Yellow Bear in Avenue Q (UK tour); Michelle in Sister Act(Gordon Craig Theatre) and Dynamite in Hairspray (Cork Opera House and Irish Tour).

Workshops include: Testimony in Oliva Tweest (Barbican Centre) and Narrator in Olivia Tweest (The Other Palace).

Television includes: The One Show (BBC) and This Morning (ITV).

Recordings include: Kathy in Original London Cast Recording of 9 to 5 The Musical.

Instagram: rhishape_

Twitter: @RhianeTweets
Richard Colvin

Richard Colvin

Richard is overjoyed to be returning to Pitlochry Festival Theatre for a 5th time having been part of the Christmas company in 2019 and the rep company in 2021, 2019 and 2014. Richard was born in Fife, studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and then the Royal Academy of Music.

His Other theatre productions include: The Wizard Of Oz (Storyhouse, Chester); Sunshine On Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Christmas Carol, Threepenny Opera and Singing In The Rain (Octagon, Bolton); The Borrowers (New Vic Theatre); Hamlet and A Government Inspector (Northern Broadsides); The Hired Man (off-Broadway), and Assassins (Crucible, Sheffield).

Richard regularly tours with the internationally renowned cabaret “Opera Boys“, and has also worked as a principal soloist for the London Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestras.