Horoscope

By Joe Corrie

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£1.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-887-0

Acts:

1

Females:

5

Males:

3

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Scottish Play: No. 91

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.

 

Ian and Nellie have been married for two years and are still fervently in love with each other. But a neighbour comes in with a book How to Read Character by the Stars.

Then things happen that sow the seeds of suspicion, bringing out the faults of character which the book tells of. They eventually quarrel, and Nellie packs up to go home to her mother. Nellie's mother and father arrive, and just make things worse. But Ian's mother, knowing a little about human nature, plays her part better, and all ends happily.

Good characterisation and plenty of fun.