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'Twas the Night Before Christmas

There are very few writers who haven’t, at some stage, been stirred into putting pen to paper on the subject of Christmas.

For some, it has been the chance to write of the festivity and good cheer of Christmas, a celebration of faith and hope, of hearth and home. For others, Christmas has provoked more sombre thoughts, reflecting loss, or loneliness or the passing of time. Others still have planted themselves firmly in the Scrooge camp, the first sign of tinsel and turkeys prompting the literary equivalent of an outraged cry of “humbug”!

  

In a new event for Pitlochry Festival Theatre on

8 December this year, ‘Twas The Night before Christmas will draw together all these very different strands into an aural anthology of writings upon the subject of Christmas. A selection of short stories, essays, poems and personal anecdotes, even extracts from novels, will be woven together and performed – in the true spirit of the season! - by some very familiar faces from the Pitlochry stage – Martyn James and Jacqueline Dutoit (both pictured). From Dickens, Hardy, Betjeman and Brontë to Sue Townsend, U. A. Fanthorpe and even Mrs. Beeton, all the many different facets of the Christmas experience will be on show.

So, come in out of the cold, settle down with a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie and prepare to engage with the true spirit of Christmas: wonder, magic, sadness, panic, exultation, madness and great good humour - all rolled into one!

Tickets: (£10 including mulled wine and mince pies), are available from box office: 01796 484626 or online: www.pitlochry.org.uk
 
 
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