Cobbler's Luck

By Joe Corrie

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£2.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-862-7

Acts:

3

Females:

5

Males:

6

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Scottish Play: No. 14

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.

 

Gibby Gordon, the cobbler of Killiewhack, took a longing to go on a cruise and get away from shoes and complaining customers for a spell. But not being able to get, he became horribly uncivil to everybody.

Miss Sorrel, a rich maiden lady of the place, to try to get Gibby back again to his old civil and loveable self, promises him £200 if he can keep himself under control for three months and not say a single uncivil word to a single person. Gibby signs the pact, but the " carrying'' out of the agreement is not so easy and leads to amusing complications and situations. The ringing of a bell, Gibby finds, has a wonderfully soothing effect on him, and it saves him quite a few times. Gibby gets his long-wished-for cruise.

Groups that have played Kye Amang the Corn, Tullycairn and Apron Strings will find this play another success.