Liam Rees presents

The Land That Never Was

Recommended Age Guide 12+ | Contains audience interaction, discussion of colonialism.

This performance has taken place in the past

Recommended Age Guide 12+ | Contains audience interaction, discussion of colonialism.

In 1820 Gregor MacGregor sold a country that didn’t exist. In 2025 Liam Rees can’t stop lying to tourists. Part confessional storytelling. Part TED Talk. Mostly bullshit.

The Land That Never Was tells the true story of Gregor MacGregor (yes that is his real name), a Scottish conman who sold a country that literally did not exist. Blending confessional stand-up, storytelling, and a whole lot of bullshit, this is a story about wanting to burn it all down and start again from scratch. It’s a story about a group of strangers who collectively believed in something that doesn’t exist… yet. It’s is a story about us.

Written and directed by LIAM REES

Supported by Creative Scotland’s Open Fund for Individuals. Originally developed with support from Vanishing Point, Capital Theatres, and National Theatre of Scotland.

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A curly haired man in a white t-shirt and jeans and wearing dark framed glasses poses dramatically with his arms outstretched in front of a screen onto which a vintage image of a landscape with palm trees, the sea, boats, and houses and the text The Land That Never Was is being projected.