Tullycairn

By Joe Corrie

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£2.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-991-4

Acts:

3

Females:

4

Males:

5

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Scottish Play: No. 71

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 carrier loves his horse and hates the motors like poison. A young draper who is in love with his younger daughter puts a motor lorry on the road in opposition to him. To complicate things more, an undertaker who has courted his elder daughter for ten long years refuses to get down to brass tacks and marry her. He gets his walking ticket. Out of spite he puts some money in the motor business. It takes a snowstorm to convince the carrier that the horse is no match for the motor.

At the critical moment his wife takes things in hand and very cleverly pulls everyone out of the tangle.

A laugh from beginning to end and a worthy successor to Kye Amang the Corn. It is in three long acts, and in the one scene throughout.