SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Varies

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Vicky Featherstone

Executive Director
Neil Murray

Associate Director (New Work)
John Tiffany

Associate Director (Learn)
Simon Sharkey

ARTISTIC POLICY
The National Theatre of Scotland works with the best of Scottish and international talent to promote world class theatre. It aims to develop a sustainable and diverse audience, engaging with communities across Scotland and beyond by creating a touring body of work. From its first performances in February 2006, the Company has rapidly established a growing reputation for exhilarating work across all scales and types of venue including site specific.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'A true piece of "national" theatre – telling the urgent contemporary, human stories that lie at the back end of grand politics and the sweep of history.' The Guardian (Black Watch)

'Anthony Neilson's Realism is an exquisite tragi-comedy for our times.' The Herald

'The Wolves in the Walls – simply written and thoroughly creepy – is fired by Gaiman’s obsession with parents who get sealed off from their children, and his fascination with secret lives.' The Observer

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The Wolves in the Walls National Theatre of Scotland and Improbable present an adaptation of the popular book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. Winner of the 2006 TMA Award for Best Children’s Show. (70 mins, 12 on stage, 17 on the road, for audiences aged 7+ years)

Black Watch By Gregory Burke. Multi award winning, unauthorised biography of the legendary Scottish regiment, based on interviews with former soldiers of the Black Watch who served in Iraq. Directed by John Tiffany. The runaway success of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe. (110 mins, no interval, 10 on stage, 20 on the road)

Realism By Anthony Neilson. Pioneering and magical trip into the mundane, written as a companion piece to The Wonderful World of Dissocia. The first collaboration between National Theatre of Scotland and the Edinburgh International Festival and a controversial triumph at the 2006 Festival. (90 mins, no interval, 7 on stage, 14 on the road)

The Wonderful World of Dissocia Written and directed by Anthony Neilson, a highly original portrait of a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder. First staged at the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival and the winner of five Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS). (8 on stage, 15 on the road)

NTS Ensemble Three modern classics: Julie by Zinnie Harris, adapted from Strindberg’s Miss Julie; Vanishing Point’s Mancub by Douglas Maxwell, adapted from The Flight of the Cassowary by John LeVert and directed by Matthew Lenton; and Gobbo, devised and created by David Greig and Wils Wilson. All shows can play in repertoire over a two-day period and travel with their own ‘theatre’. (Julie: 80 mins, no interval, 3 on stage; Mancub: 75 mins, no interval, 3 on stage; Gobbo: 80 mins with interval, 7 on stage; 12 on the road)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Aalst A co-production with Victoria (Belgium). In a new English translation by Duncan McLean, a Scottish cast, directed by Victoria’s Pol Heyweart, perform this shocking and revelatory piece based on the murders of two small children by their parents in an anonymous Belgian town. (60 mins, 2 on stage, 5 on the road)

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
The full support of the National Theatre of Scotland Learn Department is available to support the shows.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
The Wolves in the Walls available from spring 2007.
Black Watch available from summer 2007.
Realism available on request.
NTS Ensemble available from spring 2007.
The Wonderful World of Dissocia available from summer 2007.
Aalst available from summer 2007.