INWYS Memoir & Live Show

Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim

It’s Not Where You Start

The Live Show and Award Winning Book

Hilarious. Moving. Completely true.

Award-winning actor, bestselling author and producer of Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim — described by theatre critic Alan Chadwick as “Scottish theatre’s greatest success story of recent times” — Scott Kyle has built an extraordinary career across theatre, film and television.

But long before any of that, he was Child 305106 — a number in Scotland’s care system, trying to work out where he belonged.

How do you work out who you are when you’ve spent most of your life trying to work out where you belong?

Growing up in Glasgow, Scott’s childhood was shaped by poverty, violence, sectarianism and foster care. Yet from those beginnings came an extraordinary and often unlikely journey to stages and film sets around the world, working alongside Hollywood stars and receiving acting awards across both stage and screen — including The Stage Award for Acting Excellence and Best Actor at the HB Film Festival — before eventually coming full circle to become a foster carer himself.

And very little of it went according to plan.

There have been extraordinary highs, spectacular mistakes, unlikely friendships, failures, second chances and moments so ridiculous they could only be true.

But underneath the laughter are questions most of us have asked ourselves:

Who am I? Where do I belong? And what am I actually supposed to do with my life?

In It’s Not Where You Start, Scott takes audiences on a funny, candid and deeply personal journey through the people, places and unexpected moments that shaped the person he eventually became.

From Child 305106 to film and television sets; from the extraordinary rise, fall and return of Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim to becoming a bestselling author; and ultimately from being a child in care to caring for children himself, Scott discovers that sometimes the things that go wrong tell us more about who we are than the things that go right.

Performed live using storytelling, photographs, film and award-winning animation, It’s Not Where You Start moves from laugh-out-loud stories to moments of remarkable honesty.

This isn’t a story about having all the answers.

It’s about spending a lifetime looking for them.

Funny, surprising, poignant and ultimately uplifting, it’s a show for anyone who has ever questioned where they belong, changed direction, started again — or wondered whether they’re actually doing what they’re supposed to be doing with their life.

From foster care — Child 305106 — to foster carer.

Because sometimes you have to travel a very long way to discover who you were all along. 

2027

Scotland’s award-winning comedy — bigger, bolder and like you’ve never seen it before.

Two football fans. Two sides of Glasgow. One prison cell. And this time, some of Scottish football’s biggest personalities are watching from the sidelines.

For more than 20 years, Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim has entertained audiences across Scotland with its fearless mix of football, friendship, sectarianism and unmistakable Glasgow humour.

For producer and actor Scott Kyle, the show has also been a remarkable part of his own story. It helped establish him as an actor, with his performance earning The Stage Award for Acting Excellence at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, before a career that would take him into The Angels’ Share, Kajaki and Outlander.

Now, more than two decades after the journey began, Scott has brought Billy & Tim back — bigger and better than ever before.

Welcome to The Widescreen Edition.

On the day of an Old Firm clash, Rangers supporter Billy and Celtic fan Tim find themselves locked in a prison cell together, forced to confront the rivalry, prejudice and contradictions that have divided generations.

But this time, they’re not alone.

As the play unfolds, former Rangers and Celtic players sit alongside professional broadcasters providing live, completely unscripted commentary — reacting to the action, sharing stories, analysing the characters and, inevitably, disagreeing with each other.

The Widescreen team features broadcasters Rob MacLean and David Tanner, alongside former Rangers players Charlie Miller, Derek Ferguson and David Robertson, and former Celtic players Peter Grant, Simon Donnelly and Jackie McNamara.

With football legends sitting side by side, sometimes the action off the pitch is every bit as entertaining as the action on it — and because the commentary is live, no two performances are ever quite the same.

Beneath the laughs remains the reason Billy & Tim has endured.

It’s a comedy about football, friendship, family, identity and sectarianism — asking why the colours we wear can mean so much, where rivalry ends and hatred begins, and whether two people raised on opposite sides can discover they have far more in common than they thought.

More than 20 years after Scott first stepped into the world of Billy & Tim, the show that helped change his life begins its biggest chapter yet.

Part theatre. Part football show. Part live commentary. Completely unpredictable.

Whether you’re Rangers, Celtic, neither — or couldn’t tell a penalty from a corner kick — this is first and foremost a great night of Scottish comedy.

90 minutes. Two teams. One stage. And absolutely no VAR.

2027