“Scotland’s flagship national theatre is set to abandon plans to base itself in a deprived Glasgow housing scheme. Easterhouse had been earmarked as a home for the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS). When the surprise move was announced in 2003 by the then Culture Minister, Frank McAveety, much was made of the symbolic power of the new cultural institution being sited in an area associated with deprivation and poverty. However, the core staff of the NTS has never moved to the £9.5m facility and has instead been based in temporary offices in central Glasgow.”