The Traitor
By Joe Corrie
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- ISBN:
- 978-0-85174-978-5
- Acts:
- 1
- Females:
- 3
- Males:
- 4
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Scottish Play: No. 142
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.
The only hope of saving Will Scott's life, condemned to be hanged for cattle-reiving, is by kidnapping Marjory, daughter of Lord James Maxwell.
Young Glenlogan has been in league in secret with the reivers, promises to do this. The condemned man's son discovers that Glenlogan is a traitor and intends to take her over the border to marry her. How the condemned man's son foils Glenlogan's plan makes the most exciting play Corrie has written for the Scottish Amateur theatre.
