The Light House Scottish Tour announced

Lisa in the theatre
Mar 14
3 min read

Updated: Mar 23

Acclaimed one-woman play about love and lighthouses returns to UK stages on tour this year. The Light House opens at the Traverse Theatre on Saturday 28 March. Find out more about the show and the tour below.

Alys Williams in The Light House play. Photo credit: Anthony Robling — Alys Williams in The Light House. Photo: Anthony Robling

The Light House by Alys Williams | Directed by Andrea Heaton

“Everyone should see The Light House”, said one audience member after seeing the show’s premiere at Leeds Playhouse in 2023. And now they can, as The Light House returns for an extensive Scottish tour in 2026, including a myriad of coastal and rural venues including Shetland, Lewis and Skye.

Following a celebrated national tour in 2023/4, The Light House returns in 2026 with its autobiographical story of falling in love and staying in love, even when the person you love doesn’t want to be alive. It’s a tender, funny and defiantly hopeful story about journeying through tricky times - a love letter to life!

“Of course, you always make a show hoping it will resonate with people”, says The Light House’s creator Alys Williams, “but we’ve been amazed by the responses. I’m still receiving messages from people about the last tour. It’s very special.”

About The Light House play

The Light House is autobiographical and a genuine passion project for Alys, who says: “Our society is getting so much better at talking about mental health and suicide, but I still don’t think we hear many stories about the care involved or the possibility of recovery. I think a lot of people have stories like ours, where someone has ‘gone to the brink’ as it were but found their way back into the light, perhaps over and over again through the years. I wanted to tell that story.

In the end, though, The Light House isn’t about mental health. It’s about love, and hope, and the way human beings hold onto each other when things get tough. It’s about getting through this messy, beautiful thing called life, together.”

The play, which includes gentle audience participation, is a warm, witty and poetic theatrical journey in which audiences are invited to join Alys as she dances in the kitchen, sings in the streets and tries to turn the light back on.

During its 2026 tour, the show will reach a new and wider audience, with a particular focus on rural and coastal areas.

Director Andrea Heaton is thrilled about the coming tour: “I’m so grateful to be directing The Light House, for our brilliant and thoughtful team, and most of all to have the chance to share it with you. This play is a conversation I want to have with everybody I love”.

Developed over a period of two years with an exciting, female-led creative team, The Light House was made with support from Leeds Playhouse, Red Ladder and Arts Council England. The 2026 tour has been made possible through support from NRTF (National Rural Touring Forum), the Touring Network (Scotland), Traverse Theatre and Creative Scotland.