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Scots translations shed new light on Québécois playwright Tremblay

Original: “Somehow hearing the play in Scots gave Anglophone audiences an insight into Tremblay that had hitherto eluded them” —Ma

Critic Mark Fisher writes that hearing Michel Tremblay's plays in Scots gave Anglophone audiences an insight into the Québécois playwright that English versions had not managed. A new collection gathers eight Scots translations of Tremblay's work, published in the journal Critical Stages, and theatre commentators are noting how the linguistic kinship between Scots and Quebec French vernacular captures the plays' working-class voices more faithfully than standard English ever did.

Why now: The newly published collection of Scots translations is prompting fresh discussion of how language choice shapes access to Tremblay's work

Michel TremblayMark FisherCritical StagesScotlandQuebec

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• “Somehow hearing the play in Scots gave Anglophone audiences an insight into Tremblay that had hitherto eluded them” —Mark Fisher on MICHEL TREMBLAY: PLAYS IN SCOTS – 8 Scots translations of the Québécois playwright’s work 1/4 https://www. critical-stages.org/29/michel-… · scotlit@mastodon.scot · 5

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