The Gaberlunzie

By Joe Corrie

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-946-4

Acts:

1

Females:

3

Males:

5

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Scottish Play: No. 131

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.

 

To the home of the dying old miser the Laird of Lowden, come two monks to persuade him to leave his wealth to their monastery. One look into the adjoining room tells them that they have come too late. They are disappointed and angry until gaberlunzie Rab Scott makes an appearance. He is the very double of the old Laird so the monks come to a financial agreement with him to impersonate the laird on a death bed and makes out a will in their favour when the Notary arrives.