Creative Career Insights | National Theatre of Scotland Empowering Your Path to a Dream Job Creative Careers: Insights sessions at are free of charge, and provide an exciting chance for schools to:Tour our vibra

Dates: 6–8 Oct & 3–5 Nov 2026. To register your school's interest, fill in the online booking form below before 11 June.
www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/education/creative-careers

Creative Careers: Insights returns this autumn, free sessions at Rockvilla introducing S1–S6 pupils to all the different jobs behind Scotland’s creative industries.

Tours, workshops, staff Q&As, and a look at the roles that make theatre happen beyond the stage. Free transport for state schools.

Find about more about Niall and Surya here
www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/latest/playwrights-announced-for-south-asian-playwrights-programme

We are thrilled to announce Niall Moorjani and Surya Elango as the two playwrights selected for our South Asian Playwrights’ Programme.

A collaboration with @playpiepint.bsky.social @playwrightsstudio.bsky.social and Bijli Productions
#SouthAsianPlaywrightsProgramme

⚓This prompt-book page from Kidnapped - a swashbuckling rom-com adventure is still up for grabs.

Support the #TwentyIn campaign and help bring new NTS productions to audiences.

Donate to win + 2 tickets here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/support-us/t...

Caring Scotland Portraits and Sound Collection Launched | National Theatre of Scotland The first public culmination of Caring Scotland, a three-year listening project documenting the lives of Care Experienced people in Scotland, has launched.

Read more from those involved in the project here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/latest/carin...

In partnership with Who Cares? Scotland & @natlibscot.bsky.social

We are grateful to the Heritage Fund & National Lottery players for making this project happen.
📸Kirsty Anderson

“The testimonies we have listened to of how the Care system has impacted on people’s lives are a vital and often overlooked part of what Scotland's story was, is now and what we can become."

We are so proud to finally share Caring Scotland: The Sound Collection & Ten Portraits

Written by Frances Poet. Directed by Jemima Levick. From an idea conceived by Paul English and Frances Poet. A NTS and @trontheatre.bsky.social co-production.

Name an 80s track the cast of Stand & Deliver can't stop playing🎵

👖 Find out more and book your tickets here:
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#TheHighLife is dir. by Andrew Panton with story, script & lyrics by @alancumming.bsky.social, @forbesmasson.bsky.social & Johnny McKnight

Music by Forbes Masson / add music by Alan Cumming.

A co-pro with Dundee Rep in assoc. with Aberdeen Performing Arts & Capital Theatre

All passengers please fasten your seatbelts for today's in-flight entertainment: The High Life trailer!

TAKING OFF TONIGHT
‍️✈️14-18 April, His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen
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Non-executive Director Board Member | National Theatre of Scotland We are a Theatre Without Walls, have imagination without limits and exist to make extraordinary, relevant theatre by, with and for contemporary Scotland.As

We're looking for two exceptional people to join our Board. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in guiding the future of the National Theatre of Scotland.

Full details & how to apply here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/jobs/trustees

📆Apply by Mon 11 May

photo of Hannah Lavery

🎤 “Theatre, dance, music, poetry, comedy, allow us to approach difficult truths without sanding them down.”

📣 Read Hannah Lavery's article

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🎟️ Final release tickets available here www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/mayday

Co-curated by Hannah Lavery & Cora Bissett

📸Kirsty Anderson

True Story | National Theatre of Scotland Everyone's got a story to tellWhat's yours? In our 20th birthday year and for the first time ever, National Theatre of Scotland is inviting you to share th

One month to submit your True Story here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/true-story

"I have had the privilege of listening to thousands of stories over the years, allowing me insight into the personal, the extraordinary and the sometimes, dramatic.”

Lorraine Kelly our #TrueStory Ambassador knows that everyone has a story that deserves to be shared.

‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world It was the play that rocked a nation. The makers of the devastating drama, which transported audiences from a Fife pub to a war zone, recall how it grew and grew

Read the feature here: www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

📸 Black Watch, 2007, Manuel Harlan
📸Black Watch, 2006, Manuel Harlan
📸 Black Watch, 2007, Manuel Harlan
📸 Black Watch, 2007, Manuel Harlan

20 years on the @theguardian.com's @markffisher.bsky.social spoke with Black Watch creators about the enduring legacy of one of the most-celebrated productions in Scottish theatre history. With Vicky Featherstone, Gregory Burke, John Tiffany, Brian Ferguson, Emun Elliott and Laura Hopkins.

Written by Frances Poet. Directed by Jemima Levick. From an idea conceived by Paul English and Frances Poet. A NTS and @trontheatre.bsky.social Company co-production.

Rockvilla is rocking to an all-80s soundtrack with Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In in rehearsals.

👖 Dates and tickets here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/stand...

📸Julie Howden

#TheHighLife is dir. by Andrew Panton with story, script & lyrics by @alancumming.bsky.social, @forbesmasson.bsky.social & Johnny McKnight
Music by Forbes Masson / add music by Alan Cumming.
A co-pro with Dundee Rep in assoc. with Aberdeen Performing Arts & Capital Theatres
📸Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

The reviews are in and it’s 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 service from Air Scotia.

#TheHighLife opens at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh this evening and runs until Sat 11 April.

Experience the “hilarious, camp and fun production” by purchasing your tickets here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/the-h...

“The truth is stranger than fiction.”

Author @irvinewelsh.bsky.soc knows this better than most, and he’s joined our nationwide search to find one #TrueStory to be brought to theatrical life.

Find out more about & submit your story here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/true-story

#TheHighLife is dir. by Andrew Panton with story, script & lyrics by Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson & Johnny McKnight

Music by Forbes Masson / add music by Alan Cumming.

A co-pro with Dundee Rep in assoc. with Aberdeen Performing Arts & Capital Theatres.

It’s lights up the aisle for #TheHighLife -The Musical opening night and on Captain Duff’s orders: be prepared to SING FOR DEAR LIFE. It's is jetting off on a Scotland wide tour.

Tickets & full creative team here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/the-h...

This month's #TwentyIn prize is a prompt-book page from #Kidnapped, our swashbuckling, rom-com adaptation of the #RobertLouisStevenson classic from Isobel McArthur & Michael John McCarthy + 2 tickets to a NTS show in 26/27.

🫶Donate throughout April
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Written by Frances Poet. Directed by Jemima Levick. From an idea conceived by Paul English and Frances Poet. A NTS and Tron Theatre Company co-production.

‘In a factory like this, you’re part of a team. You’re a family.’

Introducing the brilliant creative team behind Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In.

Meet the team here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/stand...

More info here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/latest/mayda...

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday!
Cora Bissett & Hannah Lavery present an urgent, collective response to the times we are living through with a one-night-only gathering.

BOOK NOW
Friday 1 May 2026, 7pm
Central Halls, Edinburgh
www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/mayday

#TheHighLife is dir. by Andrew Panton with story, script & lyrics by Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson & Johnny McKnight
Music by Forbes Masson / add music by Alan Cumming.

A co-pro with Dundee Rep in assoc. with Aberdeen Performing Arts & Capital Theatres

📸Tommy Ga-Ken Wan