Edinburgh Festival Fringe

THE OOTLAW

Duddingston Kirk (inside)
Venue 121

The tragic and compelling playlet by the Scandinavian master. This theatrical realisation, with live music, suggests the conflict between the pagan Viking world and emerging Christianity.
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The Ootlaw

The Verdict

A spare, beautiful production, through which The Essence shines:

Edinburgh 09  – Duddingston Kirk – 10-14^th, 17th-21^st August – 17.30 ( 70mins ) 

The Ootlaw is a short, deeply moral play, set in Iceland around 1100AD written by August Strindberg, lovingly rendered intae Scots by David Purves.  The story is that of the plight of Thorfinn, a Viking, his family and friends, caught in the turning tide of conversion from Pagan worship of Thor and Odin to The White Christ of Celtic Christianity.

Anne Lannen's voice holds the language splendidly, opening the densely poetic Scots language to listening ears right from the start of the . . .  Read FULL Review