Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh; then touringMichel Tremblay's 1968 play is set in a working-class district of Montreal and written in the local French-Canadian dialect (called joual). Translated into Glaswegian dialect by Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay, it became an instant classic when produced in Glasgow in 1989. If today its construction seems at times clumsy and over-simplistic, the language is still astonishing: a bubb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM on September 29, 2012