Ireland’s Dreams For Scottish Theatre

Kenny Ireland is leaving Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre. He’s got lots of criticism for local theatre, but he’s hoping to come back for bigger things. “He has also turned the Lyceum round from a debt-ridden and under-maintained venue into a successful and rather lovely theatre. He wants to do the same for the whole of Scottish theatre and he wants to create a Scottish national theatre to make it happen. When Ireland took over 10 years ago, the theatre owed £1m to the city and had a £400,000 deficit…”