ABOUT US

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Communicado is a Scottish theatre company, formed in 1983. Over the last twenty one years the company has presented well over thirty pieces of original theatre, and has played all over Scotland and the UK, as well as in Ireland, Germany, Holland, Turkey, Egypt, the USA , Canada, and Tanzania in East Africa.
The company has performed at the Edinburgh International Festival (“official festival”), has won six Fringe Firsts on the Edinburgh Fringe, four Edinburgh Evening News awards, the Hamada Prize, Glasgow Herald Angel award, and also the inaugural Prudential Award for British Theatre. Our productions of THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS and A WEE HOME FROM HOME were televised for BBC Scotland, and JOCK TAMSON’S BAIRNS, commissioned for the opening of Glasgow 1990 Year of Culture, was the subject of a South Bank Show special documentary for ITV. The company was featured three years running at the Donmar Warehouse “Pick of the Fringe” in London’s West End, and also in London has appeared at The Place, The Almeida, The Drill Hall and the Royal Festival Hall.
In recent years, the company has been involved in research projects and long term collaborations with partners in East Africa, Spain and France, as well as with The Highland Festival and Sounds of Progress in Glasgow.