About

Fire Exit theatre company closed in 2019. This website is an archive.

Fire Exit was a multi-award-winning company presenting hard hitting, richly researched drama that innovated with form. The company was led by writer and director David Leddy, who has been described as a 'leading theatrical innovator' by The Times as well as a ‘maverick’ (Guardian), an ‘institution’ (Independent), a ‘genius’ (Scotsman), a ‘master’ (Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil) and a 'theatrical iconoclast' (The List). The shows combined the emotional drive of dramatic new writing with the intellectual stimulation of performance art and the dynamism of new technology. Read more

FILMS

Watch the trailers and full-length films of our shows.

FREE E-BOOKS

Free e-books of our final publications Hits & Misses and Pyromaniac.

CORIOLANUS VANISHES

2018 + 2017: A tense, suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller written by David Leddy.

THE LAST BORDELLO

2018: Mitri is a sweet young terrorist who must lose his virginity tonight.

News

29 MAY 2019

CLOSURE OF FIRE EXIT THEATRE COMPANY
FOLLOWING CREATIVE SCOTLAND FUNDING CUT.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID LEDDY ENDS HIS THEATRE CAREER.

Fire Exit theatre company has announced it will close permanently at the end of June 2019, after 17 years. This follows Creative Scotland’s decision last year to cut the company’s funding completely. Artistic Director David Leddy plans to stop making theatre and pursue a new career.

The announcement comes one day before Leddy will appear at Holyrood to give evidence to the Scottish Parliament Culture Committee’s arts funding inquiry on 30th May 2019.

Before closure, the company will publish two legacy books on 20th June:

PYROMANIAC: 25 Years of David Leddy and Fire Exit Theatre is a deluxe art book presented as a signed and numbered limited edition.

HITS & MISSES: Collected Plays 2006-2019 features all of Leddy’s play texts in one e-book, including four plays that were written but will now never be staged.