Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Yanayin siyasa da kuma kudade ya canza sosai bayan rashin nasarar zaben raba gardama
na 1979 da kuma zaben gwamnatin Conservative karkashin Margaret Thatcher. Scottish Arts Council ya karfafa kamfanonin wasan kwaikwayo don yin aiki a matsayin kasuwanci, neman kudade a cikin tallace-tallace na tikiti da tallafin kasuwanci. A cikin 1981 an ba ɗan wasan kwaikwayo Ewan Hooper £ 50,000 don kafa Kamfanin wasan kwaikwayo na Scottish da ke Glasgow kuma an tsara shi don inganta aikin marubutan Scottish. Kamfanin ya sami wahalar yawon shakatawa saboda babu isassun manyan wuraren da za su iya samar da kudaden shiga da ake buƙata a waje da manyan biranen. Ayyuka a kakar wasa ta farko sun hada da "Animal" na McGrath (1979) da kuma "Civilians" na Bryden (1981). Nasarar fasaha ta kasance tare da bala'in kuɗi kuma kamfanin yana da bashin £ 120,000 a ƙarshen kakar wasa ta biyu. Duk da wasu nasarori masu mahimmanci, an dakatar da kamfanin a shekarar 1987. 7:84 ya kuma fuskanci lokacin rashin kwanciyar hankali na kudi, amma sabbin tsari, sabon gudanarwa da kuma jaddadawa kan karfafa sabbin rubuce-rubuce sun haifar da ayyuka kamar Rona Munro's (b. 1959) "Bold Girls" (1990). A cikin shekaru ashirin da suka gabata na karni na ashirin an gina babban tsari na wasan kwaikwayo na Scottish. Akwai kuma canji daga al'adar marubuci ɗaya da ke aiki tare da kamfani ɗaya zuwa kamfanoni da yawa da ke zana kan ƙungiyar marubuta. Rubutun wasan kwaikwayo na Scottish ya zama ya zama na duniya, tare da marubutan Scottish da ke daidaita matani na gargajiya kamar Liz Lochhead na "Tartuffe" na Molière (1985) da "The Misanthrope" (1973/2005) ko fassarar Edwin Morgan na "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1992). Har ila yau, 'yan wasan kwaikwayo na Scottish sun fi damuwa da al'adun Turai mafi girma, kamar yadda za'a iya gani a Jo Clifford's (b. 1955) "Lossing Venice" (1985) da kuma David Greig (b. 1969) "Turai" (1995).