Home | News | NEW SOUND STAGE PLAY – WHO ARE YOU? 27 OCTOBER, 2021 NEW SOUND STAGE PLAY – WHO ARE YOU? Pitlochry Festival Theatre and The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, in association with Naked Productions, are delighted to announce the Sound Stage premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s new environmentally themed play Who Are You? WHO ARE YOU? A new play by Timberlake Wertenbaker Directed by Amy Liptrott Music composed by Nicolette Macleod Sound Recordist: Louis Blatherwick Sound Designer: Paul Cargill Assistant Director: Sarah Mooney Cast: Georgie Glen, Saskia Ashdown, and Angela Ness Dates: 29-31 October 2021 • Written by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Olivier award winning Our Country’s Good) • Who Are You? to on Sound Stage from 29-31 October • Cast to feature Georgie Glen (Call the Midwife, BBC; Calendar Girls, Buena Vista and The Crown, Netflix); Saskia Ashdown (Lament for Sheku Bayoh, National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh & Edinburgh International Festival) and Perthshire actor Angela Ness (Vigil, BBC) • Directed by Amy Liptrott with music composed by singer/songwriter Nicolette Macleod Pitlochry Festival Theatre and The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, in association with Naked Productions, are delighted to announce the Sound Stage premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s new environmentally themed play Who Are You? Directed by Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Associate Director Amy Liptrott, Who Are You? will premiere on Pitlochry Festival Theatre and The Lyceum’s audio-digital venture, Sound Stage from 29-31 October. Vivian took the decision to move to the countryside. She now lives alone at the top of a hill. However, one day, Vivian returns from collecting firewood to discover she is not alone anymore. Wertenbaker’s new drama poses many important questions about the current state of our world - questions from which we can no longer escape and which, the play warns, we ignore at our own peril. The exciting all Scottish cast will feature Georgie Glen (Call the Midwife, Little Britain and Waterloo Road, BBC; Calendar Girls, Buena Vista and The Crown, Netflix) as Vivian; Saskia Ashdown (Lament for Sheku Bayoh, National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum Theatre & Edinburgh International Festival) as The Presence; and Perthshire actor Angela Ness (Vigil, BBC) as the Weather Reader. The new play will feature original music from Scottish singer/songwriter Nicolette Macleod. Timberlake Wertenbaker ‘s theatrical credits include the Olivier award winning Our Country’s Good (Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway); Winter Hill Jefferson’s Garden, Our Ajax, The Line, Galileo’s Daughter, Credible Witness, The Break of the Day, Three Birds Alighting on a Field, The Grace of Mary, The Ash Girl, After Darwin and The Love of the Nightingale. She has translated plays from Greek, French and Italian, including The Theban Plays for the RSC; Hecuba (ACT in San Francisco); Filumena (Peter Hall Company at the Piccadilly); and Phèdre (Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario). Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker said: “I’m thrilled to be making a new play with Pitlochry Festival Theatre and the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh. Sound Stage has been such a great initiative. I have enjoyed writing Who Are You? for this new platform. Like everyone during the pandemic, I have found myself thinking a great deal about what is happening to me and others locally but simultaneously grappling with how we tackle the inescapable challenges we face globally. I am really looking forward to sharing this with audiences in October.” Sound Stage is an exciting new audio-digital venture, designed by theatre makers and leading technologists, giving audiences a unique and engrossing online theatre experience of new plays from the best in British theatre which, in the future, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh hope to produce on stage. Over the last six months the opening season of Sound Stage has featured new plays by Mark Ravenhill, Roy Williams, John Byrne, Lynda Radley, Jaimini Jethwa, Frances Poet and Gary MacNair. Every Sound Stage performance will be accompanied by a post-show event for each showing, hosted on Sound Stage, inviting audiences to engage further with the creative teams behind Who Are You? Ends For all press interviews please contact Duncan Clarke PR: T 07880893750 or E duncanclarkepr@gmail.com NOTES TO EDITORS REVIEWS Audio link available in the w/c 11 October. All reviews embargoed till 00.01 on Wed 27 October. LISTINGS Dates: 29-31 October Time: 7pm (Fri & Sat) and 4pm (Sun) Venue: Sound Stage Tickets: www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com and www.lyceum.org.uk Production credits Pitlochry Festival Theatre and The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh in association with Naked Productions present the world premiere of WHO ARE YOU? A new play by Timberlake Wertenbaker Directed by Amy Liptrott Music composed by Nicolette Macleod Sound Recordist: Louis Blatherwick Sound Designer: Paul Cargill Assistant Director: Sarah Mooney Cast: Georgie Glen, Saskia Ashdown, and Angela Ness. Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) · Theatre for Everyone. Theatre for a Lifetime · Our mission is to create, nurture and inspire. · We actively seek to embody our values (empathy, respect, integrity, creativity, collaboration, inspiration) in all encounters and communications. · Established 1951, PFT offers a unique theatrical experience, operating a daily repertoire system in the summer which means that audiences and visitors can enjoy six different productions (all performed by a resident acting company) in six days. · The BOP/Whetstone Feasibility Study of PFT (2012/13), commissioned jointly by Creative Scotland, Perth & Kinross Council and Scottish Enterprise, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007/8 Economic Impact Study of PFT carried out by Scottish Economic Research: PFT makes an annual contribution to Scotland’s economy of between £13m and £20m, whilst every public pound invested in PFT produces a return of between £17 and £20. 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