Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Mamiriro ezvinhu ezvematongerwe enyika uye emari akachinja zvakanyanya mushure mekukundikana kwe
referendamu yokugoverwa kwemasimba muna 1979 uye kusarudzwa kwehurumende yeConservative pasi paMargaret Thatcher. Scottish Arts Council yakakurudzira makambani emitambo kushanda sebhizimisi, kuwana mari mukutengesa matikiti uye kutsigira zvokutengeserana. Muna 1981 mutambi Ewan Hooper akapiwa £50 000 kuti atange Scottish Theatre Company iri muGlasgow uye yakagadzirirwa kusimudzira basa revanyori veScotland. Kambani yacho yakaona zvakaoma kutenderera sezvo pakanga pasina nzvimbo dzakakura dzakakwana dzaigona kuunza mari inodiwa kunze kwemaguta makuru. Mabasa mumwaka wekutanga aisanganisira "Animal" yaMcGrath (1979) uye "Vagari vemo" yaBryden (1981). Kubudirira mune zvemhizha kwakaperekedzwa nenjodzi yemari uye kambani yaive nechikwereti che £ 120,000 pakupera kwemwaka wayo wechipiri. Pasinei zvapo nokukunda kwakati, kambani yacho yakabviswa muna 1987. 7:84 yakasanganawo nenguva yekusagadzikana kwemari, asi masangano matsva, manejimendi matsva uye kusimbisa kukurudzira kunyora kutsva kwakatungamira kumabasa akadai saRona Munro's (b. 1959) "Vasikana Vakashinga" (1990). Mumakumi maviri emakore okupedzisira ezana ramakore rechi20, kunyora kwemitambo kweScotland kwakanga kwawanda. Pakanga panewo chinjo kubva mumuitiro womunyori mumwe anoshandira kambani imwe chete kuenda kumakambani anoverengeka anoshandisa nzanga yavanyori. Kunyora mitambo yeScotland kwakawedzera kuve kwepasi rose, nevanyori veScotland vachigadzirisa zvinyorwa zvekare, senge shanduro yaLiz Lochhead yaMolière's "Tartuffe" (1985) uye "The Misanthrope" (1973/2005) kana shanduro yaEdwin Morgan ye "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1992). Vanyori vemitambo veScotland vaivewo vakabatikana zvakanyanya netsika dzakakura dzeEurope, sezvinogona kuonekwa muJo Clifford's (b. 1955) "Kurasikirwa neVenice" (1985) uye David Greig's (b. 1969) "Europe" (1995).