Burnieknowe

By Joe Corrie

Price:

£2.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-338-7

Acts:

3

Females:

6

Males:

6

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Scottish Play: No. 11

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.

 

A country comedy with a touch of romance.

To spite his farming neighbours, Adam Barclay, a dour character, allows Tam Marshall an old tinker, and his niece, Fiona, a born moocher, to pitch their tent on his land. This leads to a good deal of bitterness against Adam, although George Dinwiddle, the laird, is very fond of Tinker Tam. This gives Adam all the satisfaction he wants until his son, Alex, falls in love with the tinker lass. Alex, as dour as his father, is determined to marry her, even if it means leaving home. An unexpected change of fortune comes to the tinkers, yet despite the fact that Fiona can change her rags for expensive clothes, Adam is still against a union until we discover why the laird has befriended the tinkers so generously, a secret which causes Adam to relent, and so bring about a happy ending.

A play with good acting parts which should please any audience.