If you enjoy the world of Jane Austen or revelled in previous PFT productions of Barrie’s plays, you’ll love this romantic exploration of passing youth, second chances, and the transformative power of love. Read more …
Director Liz Carruthers makes the most of the material she has and a lot of this little confection requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Neatly constructed, often very funny and entirely open to modern observations on gender politics.
[A] pity rom-com designed to please.
It looks every bit the Hollywood romcom, offering the same modest pleasures if not the darker reflections to which Barrie would return.
The truth is, though, that Liz Carruthers’s highly entertaining new Pitlochry production hardly seems to know what to do with the play’s odd combination of chocolate-box prettiness and radical feminism.
The ensemble work hard but don’t quite deliver and at times the pace slows, but in the end the show, with its excellent production values, wins you over.
Has the air of a decorous period piece, but it has a biting, satirical edge in the second half.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry from Thursday June 7, 2018, until Friday October 12, 2018. More info: www.pitlochry.org.uk
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