The Olivier Award-wining Rise And Fall Of Little Voice is part showbusiness fairytale, part Northern clubland comedy. Life affirming and bittersweet, Jim Cartwright’s tale of mothers, daughters and the need to be loved combines hilarity and poignancy with classic knock-out songs. Read more …
[Director Gemma Fairlie] has taken a play that is difficult to balance and sometimes challenging and created a strong and enjoyable evening of entertainment.
Cartwright’s play is a potty-mouthed riot.
Laura Costello, who is making her professional stage debut in this Pitlochry season, is a star in the making. Playing the role of LV with the required pathos, she sings with a range and power that threaten to salvage a reasonable production of a bad play.
The play remains a great working-class story about how beauty can flower in the most unexpected places.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry from Thursday May 31, 2018, until Saturday October 13, 2018. Plays in repertory. Check website for performance dates and times.. More info: www.pitlochry.org.uk