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Based on the award winning bestselling memoir of the same name, the It’s Not Where You Start live show is a powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal storytelling experience that blends theatre, autobiography, and live performance with projected animation and film.

It tells the extraordinary true story of award winning actor Scott Kyle’s journey from foster care to foster carer, from Glasgow’s back streets to award-winning stages and Hollywood film sets — including the rise, fall, and return of Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim, and the moment Scott almost turned down the chance to work with Harrison Ford.

At its heart, It’s Not Where You Start explores resilience, identity, second chances, and the courage it takes to begin again — all delivered with warmth, humour, and emotional honesty.

The show has proven particularly effective with venues that engage with community groups, care-experienced audiences, and those interested in real-life storytelling, theatre, and film.

2027

Scott is honoured to have his story and portrait included in Ten Portraits, a powerful exhibition by Scottish photographer Chris Scott and National Theatre of Scotland in partnership with Who Cares? Scotland and the National Library of Scotland, funded with an award from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The project brings together ten care-experienced individuals, each captured through Chris’s dramatic and atmospheric style, reflecting both their individuality and shared experiences.

For Scott, being part of this work (His first ever with the National Theatre Of Scotland) means contributing to a wider conversation about care experience in Scotland.

The portraits are shaped by the lived stories of the contributors and form part of Caring Scotland—a three-year listening project led by playwright Nicola McCartney, documenting the lives of care-experienced people across the country.

Ten Portraits will premiere at Inverness Museum before touring galleries throughout Scotland, alongside The One Hundred Voices installation from August 2026 to October 2027.

Scott is proud to be part of a project that centres lived experience, challenges perceptions, and ensures these stories are seen and heard.

“Force adversaries to talk and you may achieve peace.”

What happens when you lock up two sworn rivals on the day of the big match?

Fireworks!!! Then something extraordinary.

Winner of the coveted Stage Award for Acting Excellence and hailed with multiple ★★★★★ reviews at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Des Dillon’s award winning play has been touring for over 20 years and continues to resonate powerfully with contemporary audiences.

Alan Chadwick described it as “Scottish theatre’s greatest success story of recent times” while Joyce McMillan of The Scotsman called it “One of the shortest and most gripping two-hour shows in current Scottish theatre.”

While the play begins with confrontation, it evolves into something far more universal. Through blistering humour, raw energy and emotional depth, it becomes an allegory for peace processes across the world.

A story about dialogue, understanding and the possibility of reconciliation in divided communities.

It is a powerful reminder that when adversaries are forced to talk, change can happen.

As powerful a piece of comedy as anything else on at the Fringe. - Thom Dibdin - The Stage