Martha

By Joe Corrie

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-904-4

Acts:

1

Females:

2

Males:

2

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Scottish Play: No. 62

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.

 

This play won the Scottish Community Drama Festival of 1935.

Martha awaits the coming home from the war of her only surviving son. Neighbours come with the sad news that he has been killed, but they cannot tell her, she is so certain that he is coming home. It is his spirit that comes.

A human, and touching study of the sorrow of war.