Scottish Theatre Highlights: March 2025
This month, Scotland is visited by multiple national tours, as well as a host of enticing locally made productions
March in Scotland sees a number of national tours and independent shows for all ages. A Play, A Pie and A Pint begins their Spring season with Éimi Quinn's Dookin' Oot, based on the writer's own experience of surviving cancer as a teenager. The black comedy tackles the timely topic of assisted dying and end of life care. The play, which opened at Òran Mór in February, will tour to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre (4-8 Mar), Paisley's Town Hall (11-12 Mar), Johnstone's Town Hall (13-14 Mar) and Aberdeen's Lemon Tree (18-22 Mar).
Writer-performer Daniel Bye brings his new solo show, Imaginary Friends, to the Tron Theatre (14-15 Mar). The play interrogates our relationship to authenticity and identity in a media landscape that obscures the self. The Tron Theatre is Bye's sole Scottish stop on a massive UK tour.
Emerging Scottish theatre artist Liam Rees presents his new solo show, The Land That Never Was in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The piece tells the true(-ish) story of Gregor MacGregor (real name, real person), who fabricated a colonial identity and narrative for himself in 1820. The solo show interrogates Scotland's relationship to colonialism and asks why people tell such intricate lies – and why we tend to believe them (The Studio, Edinburgh 14 Mar, Tron, Glasgow 21-22 Mar).
For younger children, Rubbish Shakespeare Company and Silly History Boys will team up to stage The Story Forge: Make Your Own Myth, an interactive, multi-disciplinary show for all ages. The show will tour to Speyside Sports and Community Centre, Moray as part of a massive UK tour (15 Mar).
After a sell-out run at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Wonder Fools brings their award-winning show, The Kelton Hill Fair, to Dumfries and Glasgow. The piece features Wonder Fools' signature blend of storytelling, music and physical theatre to tell the surreal story of Scottish legend Billy Marshall. Rooted in the culture of Dumfries and Galloway, The Kelton Hill Fair was developed in tandem with a group of local young people (Theatre Royal Dumfries 21-22 March, Tron, Glasgow 25-29 Mar).