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Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape

 By Peter Arnott.

A Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Royal Lyceum Edinburgh Production. Music and Sound Design by Pippa Murphy. Directed by David Greig.

Group Portrait poster

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.

A bold, funny and deeply thoughtful play about family and the forces that shaped the country we live in today. August 2023

  • Venue: Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Lyceum, Edinburgh
  • Company: Pitlochry Festival Theatre & Royal Lyceum Theatre Company
  • Director: David Greig
  • Designer: Jessica Worrall
  • Lighting designer : Simon Wilkinson
  • Lighting Programmer: Derek Anderson

Photos: Fraser Band

Simon Wilkinson’s flickering lighting and Pippa Murphy’s sound design – radio-detuned Nirvana blasting as Will spasms back into flashback – mark this out as work of real consideration and quality

David Pollock, The Stage

The sound design of Pippa Murphy and lighting design of Simon Wilkinson aid greatly in the transitions between states of varying naturalism, and are extremely impressive throughout.

Hugh Simpson, All Edinburgh Theatre

Simon Wilkinson’s lighting and Pippa Murphy’s sound are integral to the production: the former spotlighting the snippets of conversation that combine to drive the plot, the latter signalling the shifts to the ghost’s point of view, as the sound distorts and fragmented memories play

Susan Singfeld, Bouquets & Brickbats

cast of group portrait
The cast of Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape by Fraser Brand
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John Michie & Matthew Trevannion
John Mitchie & Sally Reid

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