'A psychiatrist, let loose in Oscar's brain, would emerge with enough material to fill The Lancet for a year.' THE GUARDIAN

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What Does He Do?

'Gallops off across the grotesque hinterlands of the imagination'. THE GUARDIAN.

'He slowly sucks us into a surreal nightmare world.' THE GLASGOW HERALD

'This is a world where the normal becomes abnormal, where reality is revealed in al¡ its absurdity.' THE SCOTSMAN

'McLennan manages to shape his almost obsessive anger into disconcertingly funny portraits and actions.' THE LIVERPOOL ECHO

'Brings a razor's glint to the manic edge.' NME

'McLennan's work so subtly mesmerises you that you find yourself in unknown lands (staring over a precipice) without even realising you've left the station.' SAN FRANCISCO GAEL

'Surreally, but brilliantly, he tackles small-mindedness and opens up a world of possibilities'. THE SCOTSMAN.

'He enacts little histories of desolation whose craft and zest, in writing and telling, turn raw pain into a grating eloquence of word and gesture.' PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE.

What does he look like?

'Intense, poetic, manic and unnerving'. EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
TIMES

'The sallow mask of a debauched alter boy.' PERFORMANCE
MAGAZINE.

'The spitting image of a Halloween cake face. 'EVENING NEWS

'Bright blazing eyes... tall with long sensitive fingers outstretched.'
THE GLASGOW HERALD.

'His arms are of unnerving elongation and his hands hang hugely at
the end of them.' THE SCOTSMAN

'Intense soul searching monologues with the face of a demented gurner'. TIME OUT.

'Eyes bulging through black matted hair, eyeballs gyrating in opposite directions......... NME

Anything Else We Should Know?

'"This is an experience that any progressive theatre goer would be a fool to miss.'EDINBURGH FESTIVAL TIMES.

'Prose that coils itself like a snake around your brain'. THE
INDEPENDENT

'Brilliant but disturbing, the type of performer everyone should see at least once in their lives.'THE SUNDAY TIMES

'Emotionally gripping and intellectually compelling all the way'. THE GLASGOW HERALD.

'The influences are Beckett and Joyce but the voice and vision are uniquely McLennan's.'THE INDEPENDENT

'When he lowers his voice, a magical hush comes over the audence'.
THE GLASGOW HERALD

'An audience shouldn't be left alone with this man, it isn't safe.'THE
GUARDIAN

'Uncompromising prose melts into and hypnotic stream of poetic visions so subtly that you experience what can only be described as verbal hallucincations'. EDINBURGH FESTIVAL TIMES

'This is theatre ablaze withanger pain and truth, there is no vaccine.' CITY LIMITS

'A poet on legs'. PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE

'A unique and extraordinary performer.'TIME OUT

'Recalls Flann O'Brien at his best'. THE SCOTSMAN

'An abitility to weave words into original and disconcertingly weird patterns.'THE SCOTSMAN

'The power of McLennan's language and the strength of his visual imagination are immediately striking.'THE LIST

'This is humour at, and frequently beyond the edge.'THE LIVERPOOL POST

'Oscar will be my abiding memory of the 1984 Fringe.' EDINBURGH FESTIVAL TIMES.

'He draws us into the world of the lonely and alienated, skipping from black humour to bleak obsevations wth a surreal stream of consciousness holding it all together'. THE LIST.

'McLennan has gone where none dared go before'. CITY LIMITS