Janet Horne
"That said I think she is an incredibly annoying woman generally. I've imagined she sees herself as special, which of course makes you want to slap her. But in another way it's magnificent that you can live in some place like a dunghill at the back end of beyond and see yourself in some sense as a goddess." - Rona Munro, playwright
"I see her as being an incredibly charismatic, strong-willed and annoying character. In any community, you get those domineering types who tend to drive everyone mad. They've unsympathetic and yet quite heroic." - Rona Munro
"She can be outrageous, short-tempered and a bit weird." - Kathryn Howden, Janet at Traverse Theatre
"She alienates everyone at some point in the play. She is rubbish at tending her plot of land in the village, and the way she treats her daughter sometimes is terrible, but in a funny way I admire her. She has nerve and she is absolutely real. She's the kind of person that people find themselves drawn to." - Kathryn Howden
"If you transported her to Scotland today, she would probably be a bit new-agey, a bit hippie." - Kathryn Howden