John Grumblie

By Joe Corrie

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£1.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-894-8

Acts:

1

Females:

3

Males:

3

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Scottish Play: No. 128

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.

 

"John Grumlie swore by the licht o' the mune, and the green leaf on the tree, that he could dae mair work in a day than his wife could dae in three''.

Well, a modern John Grumlie takes up the challenge with his wife in this play. What happens is perhaps tragic for John but will certainly be amusing to an audience. The ladies will get a good deal of satisfaction out of his misfortunes and the gentlemen might reap a lesson.

Good hearty comedy in the Scots dialect.