Grid Iron Theatre Company

GRID IRON
THEATRE COMPANY

Grid Iron is a multi-award winning, Edinburgh based new writing theatre company.
We specialise in creating site-specific and location theatre although we also produce work for the stage.

Since our beginnings in 1995 we have specialised in site-specific and location theatre although we have also produced work for the stage. The company has received 31 awards and many more nominations covering all aspects of our work, from acting, writing, design and use of music to stage management and technical expertise.

Our adventures have taken us to extraordinary places; from the slopes of Edinburgh Zoo to a boat-builders island in a Norwegian fjord, the former General Security building in Beirut, landslide and airside at Edinburgh airport and parks, housing estates, playgrounds and bars all over Scotland and Britain.

“Grid Iron is not just a Scottish national treasure but one of the companies that has shaped British theatre over the last 20 years.”

The Guardian

“We are fortunate in Scotland to have one of the best exponents of the site-specific genre in the world in Grid Iron.”

The Scotsman

“Grid Iron are surely now one of the most sophisticated site-specific theatre makers in Europe.”

The Times

“Grid Iron, one of Scotland’s boldest and most influential groups of the last two decades.”

The Telegraph

“Site-specific is the most vigorously disciplined, &, when good, exhilarating form of theatre. When is it good? When Grid Iron does it.”

The List

“Grid Iron, a company that has always been in the vanguard of site-responsive theatre.”

The Guardian

“One of Scotland’s most relevant, resourceful and committed companies”

Total Theatre

“Long before “immersive” became a buzz word, this company were enticing audiences into parallel universes to often-stunning effect.”

The Guardian

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Our Current Production

Muster Station: Leith

Our new production, Muster Station: Leith has been commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival and is part of this year’s programme, which is their 75th.

For information about the show please visit our CURRENT page or go directly to www.eif.co.uk/events/muster-station-leith.

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Production Photographs for Grid Iron’s Doppler at Newhales Park, Musselburgh, Scotland.

Doppler Returns!

July 28, 2025

Doppler is back! Catch him in Pitlochry on 11th and 12th September before he journeys onwards to Norway!

June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me at the CATS!

May 19, 2025

It was announced last week that June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me, our 2024 co-production with National Theatre of Scotland, has received a wonderful three nominations from the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland.

We’re looking for new Board members!

April 29, 2025

Would you like to join our Board as we head into and beyond our 30th year?

Exciting times ahead!

April 28, 2025

We were delighted to recently retain support from Creative Scotland through a successful application to the Multi-Year Fund.

A statement from the staff and board of Grid Iron Theatre Company.

August 26, 2024

Grid Iron are dismayed by Creative Scotland's decision to close the Open Fund for Individual Artists. This fund provides critical support to individual artists, who in turn offer employment for collaborators on their projects.

June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me

January 25, 2024

We are delighted to set free today the news of our new show, June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me, in co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland.

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Past Productions

View our past productions from our origin in 1995 right up until today. The productions are listed in chronological order with the most recent first.

June Carter Cash

Muster Station: Leith

Doppler

Strange Tales 聊斋

The Brunch Club

South Bend

Bingo!

Jury Play

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Grid Iron recevied Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland.

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