About Us

Birds of Paradise was created in 1991 by a group of disabled and non-disabled activists who had worked together on Fablevision’s 1990 Community Mixed Ability Theatre Project. It became Scotland’s first inclusive touring theatre company in 1993. Many of its original aims are still familiar to the company today:

• to employ disabled and non-disabled actors and other theatre professionals
• to commission new work
• to work in partnership with other organisations at home and abroad
• to create positive images of inclusion
• to encourage participation the Arts.

Recent Birds of Paradise Productions:

Clutter Keeps Company by Davey Anderson (2010)

Offshore by Alan Wilkins (2008)

Beneath You – Spider Girls are Everywhere by Kathy McKean (2007)

The Whistleblower by Rachel Amey (2007)

Mouth of Silence by Gerry Loose (2006)

Brazil 12 Scotland 0 by Ian Stephen (2005)

The Irish Giant by Garry Robson (2003)