Care home residents’ private audience with TV star

Residents at a Perthshire care home were treated to a private audience with award-winning actor Julie Hesmondhalgh as part of an art-in-lockdown initiative from touring theatre company Paines Plough which saw live theatre come to a care home.
 
Julie swapped hard-hitting dramas like Happy Valley and Broadchurch for online plays for the elderly  when she performed a virtual monologue for residents at Balhousie Pitlochry in Highland Scotland.
 
The residents and staff at the home, p