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Art that’s made in Scotland

When the Made In Scotland showcase was founded three years ago to support home-grown theatre and dance companies who wished to perform on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before a host of international promoters, no-one really knew what to expect.

Since then, not only has the strike rate been high in terms of work picked up, but it is work which only a few years ago would have been remarkable within a Scottish context at all. Shows like Cora Bissett’s site-specific sex-trafficking drama, Roadkill, and David Leddy’s labyrinthine backstage tour, Sub-Rosa, speak volumes about how much theatre-making in Scotland has raised the level of its game in terms of scope and imagination.