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O Is For Hoolet

O Is For Hoolet

Language is personal. Nothing gets closer to our hearts. And yet, by its own nature, it’s always social. Who owns it? Who appoints it? Who governs it? And why? Read more …

In this one-woman show about Scots language, Ishbel McFarlane presents a pile of fragments- collected stories, interviews, memories, characters and attitudes- to challenge and disrupt our expectations and prejudices about language.

By interrogating the history of Scots and the ways in which it is taught and subdued, the audience is invited to question the way forward for minority languages.


The critical consensus

An engaging, heart-warming piece which is a lovingly made look at language as a living, pulsating, external thing as natural as breathing.

****(*)Lorna Irvine, The List, 17/04/2015


Features about O Is For Hoolet

Preview: O Is for Hoolet@Behaviour

Lorna Irvine, Across the Arts, 07/04/2015

Interview: Ishbel McFarlane

Robert James Peacock, TVBomb, 07/04/2015

Where and when?

The Arches, Glasgow from Wednesday April 15, 2015, until Friday April 17, 2015. More info: www.thearches.co.uk

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Thursday April 23, 2015, until Saturday April 25, 2015. More info: www.traverse.co.uk

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