Having inherited a mountain of debt from her father, Mary McGregor faces a stark choice. Either close the business - and threaten the livelihood of everyone in the village - or sell her one remaining asset: the very last bottle of an ancient, fabled malt whisky . . . The Glenigma! Read more …
For Mary, closure isn’t an option. So reluctantly, she posts a notice online: The Glenigma is to be sold.
Electrified by the news, whisky fanatics from across the globe descend upon the distillery to compete in the planned auction, amongst them the two obsessive collectors who seem favourite to secure the prize: Ben Munro, a Wall Street wheeler-dealer, and Yomo Yomostushi, a Japanese industrialist.
But the soft Highland air has a strange effect on visitors. And The Genigma isn't the only attraction in this beautiful, remote location. So perhaps it’s not so surprising that when the battle for the bottle begins, things don’t turn out quite as anyone expected.
Rousingly optimistic.
Whisky Kisses is a good, rollicking night out and by the end of the Pitlochry season, it may amount to something much better than that.
Jolly though Whisky Kisses is, one can’t help but feel that procuring actors who can also sing must be near the top of the list in Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s development plans.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry from Sunday June 1, 2014, until Saturday October 18, 2014. More info: www.pitlochry.org.uk
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