Apron Strings

By Joe Corrie

Price:

£2.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-287-8

Acts:

4

Females:

7

Males:

4

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Scottish Play: No. 6

From Wikipedia, Joe Corrie (13 May 1894 – 13 November 1968) was a Scottish miner, poet and playwright best known for his radical, working-class plays.

He was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire in 1894. His family moved to Cardenden in the Fife coalfield when Corrie was still an infant and he started work at the pits in 1908. He died in Edinburgh in 1968.

Shortly after the First World War, Corrie started writing. His articles, sketches, short stories and poems were published in prominent socialist newspapers and journals, including Forward and The Miner.

Corrie's volumes of poetry include The Image O' God and Other Poems (1927), Rebel Poems (1932) and Scottish Pride and Other Poems (1955). T. S. Eliot wrote "Not since Burns has the voice of Scotland spoken with such authentic lyric note".  He turned to writing plays during the General Strike in 1926.

More information can be found on his Wikipedia page; Joe Corrie.

 

Johnathan MacIntyre is left a widower and after thirty years finds himself possessed of a sweet freedom.

He passes on this freedom to his family and the workers on his farm, and they all have a happy, lazy time. But his daughter Ann comes home from her place in Glasgow, and being her mother all over again, takes things in hand. Within a very short time she has them all under her command. The only way out for Johnathan is to get a new mistress for the farm. So, with the aid of a framed-up accident, Johnathan is acorded an opportunity to woo Miss Turtle, a kindly, warm-hearted nurse. A hasty wooing, a wedding at Gretna, a new mistress at the farm, and the departure of Ann. But there's aye as something and . . .

Fine characterisation, and plenty of good fun; this play should be as popular as Corrie's Tullycairn.