Compagnia Gaudeamus
Our charity champions Italian culture and language through theatre, workshops and bilingual events across Scotland.
In scena
Poor Piero
Selected work
Three seasons of Italian theatre. The archive.
Our voice
We are a small company doing one big thing: keeping Italian theatre alive in Scotland. Plays in Italian with live English subtitles, open workshops, community gatherings, shaped for people who don't want to forget Italian and those discovering it for the first time.
Eva D'Amico
Artistic direction · Compagnia Gaudeamus
What we do
Italian arts in three voices: theatre, language, community.
High Heels from the Big Boot
13 August 2026
Two grandchildren find a mysterious laptop and an AI that begins to reveal, with irony and precision, their grandmother's secrets. From there, a chorus of extraordinary Italian women steps forward to tell their own stories.
See the showWho
Compagnia Gaudeamus · Eva D'Amico
An original Compagnia production.
Press
Gaudeamus is the only theatre company that stages Italian works and performs entirely in Italian, complete with live English subtitles.”
For artists
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Community
Aberdeen · 2025Why support us
Help keep Italian theatre alive in Scotland.
Gaudeamus is the only Scottish charity bringing Italian theatre to a bilingual audience. Every donation is a programme, a workshop, a chair in the room.
Any amount, any time. No fixed steps, no checkout funnel. We treat your donation as a relationship, not a transaction.
Registered Scottish charity · SCIO No. SC052772 · OSCR-listed · Lloyds Bank account
Join us
Join the company.
Gaudeamus is kept alive by people who choose to support Italian theatre outside of Italy. Even small contributions keep the stage, the language and the community lit.
Recognised by
Registered Scottish charity
SCIO No. SC052772
OSCR-listed
Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
Lloyds Bank
UK charity account
Albo Consolare
Italian Government cultural register
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