Skip to main content

Summer 2023 tickets are on sale NOW.  Click HERE to see what’s on!

Close up head shot of a person with their reflection at the side
25 Mar 2023

NT Connections Festival - (Circle Dreams Around) The Terrible Terrible Past performed by The Drama Mill

Presented by Pitlochry Festival Theatre and NT Connections
NT CONNECTIONS FESTIVAL

(Circle Dreams Around) The Terrible, Terrible Past by Simon Longman performed by The Drama Mill

A recurring dream. There are fish, chickens, cows, who all look and sound like people and people who look kind of familiar.  They dream about the past mainly, a past that they don’t belong to but a past that wants to belong to them. And then there’s a butcher, killing people.
The dream circles around, going back to the start again and again; a dream they can’t get escape.

Simon Longman is a playwright from the West Midlands. His plays include Patient Light for Eastern Angles; Island Town for Paines Plough; Gundog at the Royal Court; Rails at Theatre by the Lake; White Sky at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Court; Sparks at the Old Red Lion; and Milked for Pentabus. He is the recipient of the 49th George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and has previously won the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme. His work has been translated and produced internationally.

Suggested content guidance:
Recommended for ages 14+
• Strong language.
• A brief reference to substance abuse.
• One brief, mildly sexually explicit conversation.
• The following are seen within the context of a dream: a dead body covered in blood, and
weapons including an axe, a meat cleaver and a bolt gun.

 

NT Connections Festival - (Circle Dreams Around) The Terrible Terrible Past performed by Shazam Theatre

NT Connections Festival - (Circle Dreams Around) The Terrible Terrible Past performed by Shazam Theatre

Pitlochry Festival Theatre
NT Connections Festival - Model Behaviour performed by Stage Goons
A person in the foreground wearing glasses, a white t-shirt and denim jacket and smiling. A person in the background staring at the person in front.

NT Connections Festival - Model Behaviour performed by Stage Goons

Pitlochry Festival Theatre
NT Connections Festival - Is My Microphone On? performed by Byre Youth and Community Arts
Head and shoulder shot of a person with their mouth wide open as if shouting

NT Connections Festival - Is My Microphone On? performed by Byre Youth and Community Arts

Pitlochry Festival Theatre