A white house with flowers bursting out of it.

Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape

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Group Portrait In a Summer Landscape – 25 August to 28 September

Auditorium

By Peter Arnott

This intense and riveting story is set in a Perthshire country house during the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014. It revolves around retired academic and political heavyweight, George Rennie and his fractured family and former students, coming together for a dramatic reckoning. There are secrets to be exposed.

The play is an exploration of a way of life which is coming to its end, a family struggling to connect in the wake of political pain, grief and the beginnings and ends of great love affairs.

Expect a bold, funny and deeply thoughtful play about family and the forces that shaped the country we live in today.

*Advisory warning – this performance contains language which some may find offensive.

A co-production with The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.

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Benny Young

Benny Young
Deirdre Davis

Deirdre Davis

Deirdre graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1991. She has worked for many theatre companies including the Tron Theatre, Perth Rep and 7:84 Theatre.

Deirdre first worked at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 1999, when she appeared in The Summertime Is Come with Jimmy Logan and Edith McArthur. Since then, she’s returned to Pitlochry several times appearing in The Magistrate, Heartbreak House, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and The Monarch Of The Glen, Blithe Spirit, Heritage, North and South and was also a part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Ensemble 2021.

Deirdre has appeared in consecutive Pitlochry seasons, most recently in Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Lipstick, Ketchup and Blood, Private Lives, Noises Off and Little Women during the Summer 2022 season and 2022 Christmas production Peter Pan & Wendy.

Outwith Pitlochry Festival Theatre, in recent years she has played Nora in Rona Munro’s Bold Girls at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and spent 14 years playing Eileen Donachie in BBC Scotland’s River City.

Deirdre is delighted to return for Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Summer Season 2023.
John Michie

John Michie

John’s first job in theatre was as a stage hand at the old Traverse theatre in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket. Thirty Years later he returned to the Traverse to perform in Grain in the Blood and The Mack (an Oran Mor Production) both by Rob Drummond. His last production at Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh was as Leontes in The Winters Tale. Most recently he played John Rebus in lan Rankin’s A Game called Malice at Hornchurch Theatre.

On TV he’s probably best known as DI Robbie Ross in Taggart and more recently as Guy Self in Holby City as well as a stint in Coronation Street as Karl Munro. Most recent TV appearances: Death in Paradise and London Kills.

Film work includes playing Tony Fitzjohn in To Walk with Lions with Richard Harris.
Keith Macpherson

Keith Macpherson

Keith was born in Edinburgh and trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and L’École Jacques Lecoq.

Credits: Sunshine on Leith, Noises Off, and Under Another Sky (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Il Trittico (Scottish Opera); The Yellow Door (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh/Edinburgh International Book Festival); Selkie (A Play, a Pie and a Pint); Rapunzel, Bauble Trouble, Museum of Dreams, Waiting for Godot, Desire Under the Elms, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz (Citizens Theatre); Yellow Moon, The Monster in the Hall (Citizens Theatre/
National Theatre of Scotland); Light Boxes (Grid Iron); Decky Does a Bronco (Grid Iron/Almeida Theatre); James and the Giant Peach (Dundee Rep); The Yes/No Plays (Traverse); Horizontal Collaboration (David Leddy/Fire Exit); Henry V (Bard in the Botanics); Rogue Herries (Theatre by the Lake); Mother Courage, Clutter Keeps Company (Birds of Paradise); A Christmas Carol (Cumbernauld Theatre); Hamlet (MYT Theatre), and many more productions.

Film/TV/Radio/Audio credits: Stan and Ollie; Taggart; Silent Witness; Donald and Benoit (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Chronycle (BBC Radio Scotland).
Matthew Trevannion

Matthew Trevannion

Matthew trained on the BA Acting Course at Rose Bruford College.

Theatre includes: War Horse (National Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Gielgud Theatre), Fiji Land (Southwark Playhouse), Beautiful Burnout (Frantic Assembly), Othello (Frantic Assembly), Dr Dee (ENO), Little Dogs (Frantic Assembly/National Theatre Wales), Hamlet (Young Vic), Love Steals Us from Loneliness (National Theatre Wales), Bright Unconquered Sons (Pleasance Theatre), Bent, Journey’s End (Broadway Theatre), Here’s Tommy (Kings Head Theatre), Exit the King (Tabard Theatre), Divorce Me, Darling! (Union Theatre), Stig of the Dump (Hereford Courtyard Theatre).

TV includes: Kaos (Netflix), Wanderlust (BBC/Netflix), This World: The Bunker (BBC).
Nalini Chetty

Nalini Chetty

Edinburgh born Nalini, studied Drama at Bristol University before training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She then lived all over the UK before returning to Scotland to perform in David Greig’s acclaimed Yellow Moon and later to join the cast of BBC1 Scotland’s River City. She has since worked extensively in TV, theatre and radio.

Recent theatre credits include: Standby (STC), Cyrano (Citizens Theatre/NTS), Ma, Pa and The Little Mouths (Tron), A Safe Place and The Archivist (NTS/ Oran Mor)

TV and Film: River City (BBC1), Karen Pirie (ITV), Crime 2 (Buccaneer/ITV) Justice (LA productions/BBC), Taggart (STV) and Hula (Braw Films). In 2023 she will appear in Gregory Burke’s new ITV Drama Six-Four as DS Shereen Rahman.

Radio: Puellae, A World Elsewhere, Angel of Market Street and The Return (all BBC R4) Venice Preserved (BBC R3).

As a writer Nalini has written regularly for the BBC, CBeebies and C4. Original credits include: Puellae and The Infinity Pool (both BBC R4) Finding Noor (Ankur/Citizens) and Kontomble; The Shaman and The Boy (Oran Mor/NTS/ Traverse).

She also presents BBC Scotland podcast The Reveal which can be found on BBC sounds.

Nalini is delighted to be part of the Pitlochry company this year and would like to thank her husband Alan for ‘holding the fort’ with her ‘wee yins’ Luca and Mara-Kate.
Patricia Panther

Patricia Panther

Patricia Panther is an actress, composer and sound designer based in Glasgow.

Some acting credits include; Peter Pan and Wendy (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Annika (Black Camel Pictures), Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland), The Last Bus (Hurricane Films, Head Gear Films), Trust Me (BBC One), Glasgow Girls (National Theatre Of Scotland), Scot Squad (BBC One), Logan High (BBC One), Lament To Sheku Bayoh, (National Theatre Of Scotland and Lyceum Theatre), Dark Sense (Encaptivate Films), Arabian Nights, (Lyceum Theatre).

Some composer credits include; composition and sound design for Ghost Light (Edinburgh International Festival, National Theatre Of Scotland and BBC Scotland),Fibres (Stellar Quines and Citizens Theatre), Future Of Theatre (Traverse Theatre), Glasgow Girls, (National Theatre Of Scotland and Raw Material), The Last Queen Of Scotland (Dundee Rep, Stellar Quines and National Theatre Of Scotland), Rites (Contact Theatre and National Theatre Of Scotland), Once You See The Smoke (Scottish Youth Theatre), Sonic Séance (Project X, Tramway And CCA).
Robbie Scott

Robbie Scott

Robbie hails from the North East of Scotland and is a 2021 graduate from Arts Educational Schools London (BA Hons). He also trained at the Dance School of Scotland in Glasgow.

Credits: Will in Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh/Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Dickon in The Secret Garden, Tulsa in Gypsy, Peter Pan in Peter Pan and Wendy (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Dick Whittington in Dick Whittington (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford).
Sally Reid

Sally Reid

Sally attended the School at Steppenwolf in Chicago where she trained in Meisner, Viewpoints and improvisation with ensemble members.

Theatre credits: Shirley Valentine (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Sally (Oran Mor), Cinderfella, The Ugly One, Three Sisters (Tron Theatre), Wendy And Peter Pan, Union, Guid Sisters (Royal Lyceum), Rhinoceros, (Edinburgh International Festival/Lyceum), The James Plays (National Theatre of Scoland), Great Expectations, Time And The Conways, (Dundee Rep), Blithe Spirit (PerthTheatre), Days Of Wine And Roses (Nominated Best Actress Cats Awards 2013), Doubt (Theatre Jezebel), Sunset Song (His Majesty’s Theatre), The Wall (Nominated Best Actress Cats Awards 2008), The Ducky, The Chooky Brae (Borderline).

TV credits: Karen Pirie, Annika, Group, River City, Scot Squad, Only An Excuse, Two Doors Down.

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Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape

Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape