The Scottish Community Drama Association (SCDA) was first founded in 1926. Throughout its history, amateur theatre companies in Scotland have generally presented repertoire in English, Lowland Scots and, more occasionally, Scottish Gaelic. After James Bridie's establishment of the Citizens Theatre in 1942, Scotland finally began to develop a native professional theatre. The SCDA has maintained a successful annual one-act drama festival since its inception, with one interregnum of five years (1940–45) during the Second World War.