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Shades of Tay, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
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DESCRIBED as a love letter to Scotland, Shades of Tay is intended as “a gift to those isolated by Covid-19 and those who feel isolated from theatre in general.”
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Thus a line-up of 18 British playwrights, commissioned by Pitlochry Theatre’s artistic director Elizabeth Newman — among them Timberlake Wertenbaker, Jo Clifford and Hannah Khalil — are producing weekly audio dramas, podcasts and short films performed by members of the theatre’s summer season’s ensemble.
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