At the Lyceum Studio, in yet another stunningly inventive staging of a classic text, Scotland’s classiest small scale touring company, Communicado, gives an intense and exquisite looking account – full of wild, beautiful songs specially composed for the production by Karen Wimhurst – of Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING, in which a community obsessed rigid sexual propriety turns on and savages a couple whose adulterous passion drives them beyond the pale of respectability
Joyce McMillan - The Guardian August 1988

There are many moments in this beautifully crafted show that expose the cruel reality behind the mask of “simple country living”. It is a reality in which Lorca’s “mother” is totally immersed. It is she who perpetuates the generational feud, who sees in her reluctant
son the inheritor of her dead husband’s fecundity. It is she who empties herself for the sake of her men, but who is finally forced to recognise that blind passion can flatten the strongest house of cards. 
Communicado succeed, almost effortlessly, in dragging us into this maelstrom. With captivating performances, exquisite, mournful ballads and flamenco clapping, we never wanted to escape from this prison of emotions where even the moon was vengeful in its bloodlust.
Scotland on Sunday August 1988

 Perhaps Scottish actors are simply better at expressing raw emotion and sensuality and expressing it with dignity…..Gerard Mulgrew’s direction catches unerringly both the grim humour of peasant greed and the savagery of sexual longing. The company acting is impeccable: intimate and ferocious. The production achieves, with extreme simplicity, the difficult balance between Lorca’s steamy realism and formal poetic movement, and the play emerges, scorching and eloquent, as both a psychological cauldron, and a tribal rite, both play and oratorio
John Peter The Sunday Times August 1988

Communicado . . . has always been known for its willingness to mingle moods and blend discordant styles, but never has this been put to better use than in this passionate, deeply felt and brilliantly executed staging.' Scotsman.