Pitlochry Festival Theatre

04/09/2026

How do you build a giant sand mound around an actor who stays in almost exactly the same spot? 🤔

Siobhán Redmond takes us behind the scenes of HAPPY DAYS for an early look at our workshop and production teams creating Winnie’s world.

In Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, Winnie spends almost the entire play in one position, buried in an ever-rising mound. Before the final set takes shape, that means testing everything from height and positioning to sightlines, movement and how the world of the play works around her.

Welcome to the extremely precise art of getting stuck in the right place. 🏖️

📆 Enter Winnie’s world as HAPPY DAYS transforms our Studio into a place of absurdity, optimism and survival from 18 Sep - 10 Oct.

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𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 is coming to Pitlochry Festival Theatre !
The wonderful Siobhán Redmond stars in Samuel Beckett's iconic and thought-provoking play, Happy Days from the 18th September – 10th October 2026

Beckett's darkly comic masterpiece explores optimism, resilience and the extraordinary ability to find meaning in even the most challenging circumstances. A fascinating theatrical experience featuring an outstanding performance from Siobhán Redmond.

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Buried up to your next but still thriving?☀️ Literally the case for Winnie...

Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days follows Winnie, played by Siobhán Redmond, as she talks, remembers and carries on while trapped in an ever-rising mound of sand - with husband Willie, played by Forbes Masson, somewhere nearby.

Darkly funny, absurd and strangely comforting, this Nobel prize winning masterpiece is a story of love, loneliness, routine and finding joy when life gets increasingly surreal.

🔗 https://pitlochryft.com/4xMyIRe

📆 HAPPY DAYS transforms our Studio from 18 Sept - 10 Oct
📍 Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland

02/09/2026

Clutched pearls, mid-show standing ovations and whippets… Johnny McKnight’s theatre taste has RANGE. 👏

The award-winning Scottish writer, director and performer shares his top three theatre shows of all time - from a play that inspired his drama school auditions to an unforgettable Edinburgh International Festival experience and an iconic West End musical.

What would be your three theatre treasures? 💬👇

And if Johnny’s convinced you he has impeccable taste, catch him starring as Larry in WIPING MY MOTHER’S ARSE at Pitlochry until 5 Sep.

02/09/2026

September at PFT? Sequins, sand, final bows and a calendar that refuses to calm down. 🍂

✨ I’LL BE SEEING YOU opens in the Auditorium - step into the glittering world of Liberace, where piano, showbiz sparkle and life behind the sequins take centre stage.

☀️ Happy Days arrives in the Studio - Samuel Beckett’s iconic, funny and unsettling masterpiece about carrying on when the world feels increasingly absurd. Relatable? Honestly.👀

🎶 A HISTORY OF PAPER and 🎭 WIPING MY MOTHER’S ARSE take their final bows!

Plus: Scottish Dance Theatre's LITTLE RAY brings the magic for younger audiences, Sketchers, Show Choir and PFT Young Company keep creativity flowing offstage, and the Explorer’s Garden has Fáilte Yoga and a guided garden tour.

Big glamour. Big questions. Big “hurry and just book it now” energy.

🎫 Find out more and book your September plans: https://pitlochryft.com/4yfYDkn

02/09/2026

I'LL BE SEEING YOU listed in The Guardian's top 10 shows to see this Autumn!

Flamboyant, funny and deeply moving, Martin Sherman’s sensational new play stars Simon Russell Beale as Liberace, Fra Fee as the Writer and is directed by Ben Occhipinti and Alan Cu***ng.

I’ll Be Seeing You runs from 22 Sep - 11 Oct at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland.

🎫 Book tickets now via our website

🔗 Read the full listing from the Guardian here:

Swinton takes a dead man’s identity, Glasgow’s heir to Billy Connolly heads on tour and Gillian Anderson, Keira Knightley and Natalia Osipova all hit the stage