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.
Artistic Director.......................Gerry Mulgrew
Associate Director...................Gerda Stevenson
Board:
Gordon Dougal
Gerry Mulgrew
Gerda Stevenson
Heather Baird
Rosie Gibson
Robin Harper MSP