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Winter Words Festival 21-23 Feb 2025

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Sunshine On Leith 2022

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Sunshine on Leith

Auditorium

20 May – 01 October 2022 2pm & 8pm

A Musical written by Stephen Greenhorn

Featuring the songs of The Proclaimers

Directed by Elizabeth Newman & Ben Occhipinti

New Musical Arrangements by David Shrubsole

Musical Director Richard Reeday

Movement Director Lesley Hutchison

Set Designer Adrian Rees

Costume Designer Julie Carlin

Lighting Designer Kate Bonney

Sound Designer Shaun Clark

Lighting Programmer Neil McDowell Smith

Original production at Dundee Rep on 18th April 2007

Performed by arrangement with Music Theatre International

 

Set to fantastic songs from world-renowned Scottish band The Proclaimers, Sunshine on Leith is both a funny and moving play about Davy and Ally, two Edinburgh natives returning to their hometown after serving in war-torn countries overseas, who are questioning what ‘home’ really means.

A fantastic feel-good story from Stephen Greenhorn, with a feature film adaptation in 2013, this is being produced for 2022 as a fresh new production of an  audience favourite which is sure to delight yet again.

Ticket prices from £16.  Concessions available – call Box Office for more information.

 

Sunshine on Leith is presented by Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Capital Theatres.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘truly outstanding piece of ensemble work’.

(Musical Theatre Review)

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘…a love letter to Scotland…’.

(West End Best Friend)

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘tear-jerking, joyful and awash with life’.

(The Guardian)

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4 people all on stage sitting and standing around a table looking in the same direction, 1 is holding a guitar.
2 people on stage dressed in army uniform.
2 people on stage 1 in army uniform embracing the person on the right.
2 people on stage, the person on the right is in army uniform and the person on the left is holding the face of the person on the right.
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2 people sitting at a table, the person on the left is in nurses scrubs and the person on the right has their hand placed on the left person arm.
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2 people on stage with the person on the right proposing to the person on the left.
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