You'll Have Had Your Hole

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You’ll Have Had Your Hole is Irvine Welsh’s first play. All previous Welsh plays were adaptations of Irvine Welsh novels.

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[edit] Reception

The first production of You’ll Have Had Your Hole in February of 1998 by the West Yorkshire Playhouse provoked a wave of critical scorn, loathing and outright hatred. Robert Butler wrote in Independent, “the Trainspotting author goes so far out his way to taunt us that one recoils from recoiling. He wants us to have a bad time”(221). Charles Spencer began in the Daily Telegraph, “The competition is undoubtedly strong but this is, I believe, the most obnoxious and contemptible play I have ever sat through” (222). Robert Gore-Langton in Express on Sunday concludes his review with, “I don’t know what Welsh’s message to us is, but mine to him is this: see a shrink or change your prescription”(222). Much of the critical disgust centered on the character of Laney, who many critics felt was misogynistic and Welsh’s use of elements of the romance formula, which seemed out of place beside the graphic violence.