Today’s new puritans could learn much from this joyous production of Footloose

Footloose, Pitlochry Festival Theatre: When hip kid Ren blows in to small town Bomont from the windy city with his mother, as far as action goes, things aren’t exactly swinging. Dancing has been banned following a tragedy five years earlier, and anything resembling rock and roll is considered to be the devil’s work. Ren’s only salvation comes by way of Ariel, a local girl with a lot of baggage of her own. If only she wasn’t the preacher’s daughter, Ren’s life might well be worth making a song and dance about, whatever the law might say.