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Para Handy

Para Handy

This autumn, set sail with the irrepressible captain of The Vital Spark and his ramshackle crew - mate Dougie, engineer Macphail and cabin-boy Sunny Jim - as they travel from a West Coast breakers' yard to the sea lochs of the Highlands and Islands. Read more …

Warm, witty and utterly charming, this rare chance to enjoy the hilarious misadventures of Para Handy on stage is accompanied by a rousing, foot-stomping musical score performed by a live band!


The critical consensus

It was not until the second half that the action got up a good head of steam and the audience really started responding. This was partly due to the fact that the stories of Para and crew were told directly and a host of mad characters inhabited the stage.

Joy Watters, Across the Arts, 06/11/2016

The likeable characterisations, the cheering music, comfortable, amusing episodes and lack of jeopardy come to act as a warm blanket, wrapping the audience up on deck for a couple of hours before we return to the choppier waters of the real world.

***(*)(*)Allan Radcliffe, 01/11/2016

Director Liz Carruthers’s production is beautifully timed, perfectly pitched and excellently cast.

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage, 07/11/2016

For all their efforts, the result is a show so couthy, undistinguished and undemanding that it feels as though an entire 45 years of positive change and achievement are being wiped from the record-books, in Scottish theatre as elsewhere.

**(*)(*)(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 07/11/2016

Where and when?

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry from Thursday October 27, 2016, until Sunday November 13, 2016. More info: www.pitlochry.org.uk

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