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Michel Tremblay
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- 1Michel Tremblay's enduring popularity in Scottish theatre●“Tremblay is contemporary theatre’s great melancholy realist; he fits Scotland like a glove” —McGill News Magazine on ho
Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay is the subject of a McGill News Magazine feature examining how his work became a fixture of Scottish theatre. The piece calls him contemporary theatre's great melancholy realist and says he "fits Scotland like a glove," reflecting the playwright's long-standing resonance with Scottish audiences and translators of his working-class dramas.
- 2Scots translations open up Québécois playwright Michel Tremblay●“Somehow hearing the play in Scots gave Anglophone audiences an insight into Tremblay that had hitherto eluded them” —Ma
A collection of eight Scots translations of Michel Tremblay's plays is drawing attention, with critic Mark Fisher arguing that hearing the Québécois playwright's work in Scots has given English-speaking audiences an insight into his writing that standard English versions never quite achieved. The translations, featured in the journal Critical Stages, suggest Scots and Quebec French share a similar colloquial texture.
- 3Michel Tremblay plays in Scots released in two volumes●MICHEL TREMBLAY: PLAYS IN SCOTS in 2 vols Translated by Martin Bowman & Bill Findlay Ed. Martin Bowman The energy & vers
A two-volume edition of Michel Tremblay's plays in Scots has been published, gathering eight of the Quebec playwright's works translated by Martin Bowman and the late Bill Findlay, and edited by Bowman. The collection highlights the energy and versatility of Tremblay's drama as rendered in Scots, and is available through booksellers.