Ne'er the Twain

By Alan Cochrane

Price:

£7.50

Item attributes

ISBN:

978-0-85174-692-0

Acts:

3

Females:

4

Males:

5

Item details

Scottish Play: No. 35

This is the hilarious prequel to Alan Cochrane's Award Winning play Hatches, Marches and Dispatches.

Meet the two families, the McIvors from Leith and the Burns from Edinburgh.

Whilst being best friends, and having between them a daughter and son who are going steady, the men strongly support rival Football Teams and the wives their own town's Co-operative Societies. Things come to a head over the proposed amalgamation of the two towns.

Then it is discovered that Mr. McIvor is helping the Burns's boy to change his employ from that of a Lawyers Clerk, like his father, to working in the Leith dockyards. The star-crossed young lovers decide to elope to Gretna Green, after causing havoc whilst trying to patch up the family differences.

Mix in a Newhaven Fishwife with a weakness for drink, an Assistant Minister who arrives for an impromptu singing and dancing recital, undertaken by a lay- about " Bookie's Runner'' in disguise, and you have two hours of non-stop laughter.

This Play, set in the 1920's, has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe on three separate occasions, each year playing to packed houses throughout the three weeks' run. A sure winner for any club.