The acclaimed Firebrand Theatre Company and Pitlochry Festival Theatre production of Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed is set to make a welcome return to the Studio at Pitlochry Festival Theatre this May.
Running from 30 May until 14 June, Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed is filled with poetry, humour, and romance. It reveals the untold story of how Nan Shepherd’s experiences as an author, teacher, hillwalker, and lover helped shape Scotland’s recent literary history. The play also explores why the manuscript of her ground-breaking masterpiece, The Living Mountain, lay forgotten in a drawer for decades before being self-published, translated into sixteen languages, and hailed as “one of the finest books ever written on landscape and nature in Britain.”
Produced in association with Dr. Kerri Andrews, Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed is co-written by Ellie Zeegen and Richard Baron, who also directs. The cast features Susan Coyle, who returns to the Theatre after 18 years and has appeared in television series such as Outlander, Jonathan Creek, and Taggart, as Nan Shepherd. Adam Buksh (The Great Replacement, A Play, a Pie and a Pint) plays Robertson, Neil Gunn, and John Macmurray.
Playwright and Director Richard Baron says:
“We at Firebrand are delighted to have another opportunity to tell Nan Shepherd’s fascinating life story after our sold-out run at Pitlochry last year. The enthusiastic reaction from audiences and critics alike to our story about the first female writer to feature on a UK banknote confirmed for us that Shepherd’s intrepid journey, not only into her beloved Cairngorms but as an inspirational teacher, passionate lover, and bold and active player in Scotland’s search for a new literary identity, can excite, delight, and engage both the mind and all the emotions.”
Listings and ticket information can be found here.
