What's Good for the Goose
By Joe Corrie
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- Females:
- 4
- Males:
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Scottish Play: No. 9
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 men of Bradford and Cowan's engineering works in the new town of Kinlogie have had the strike bug for a long time, giving their women folk no chance of really getting on their feet. But when they come on strike to be able to get to a football match the patience of the women comes to an end. They decide to strike and go off on a jaunt to Loch Lomond, but not before divesting their men of their cigarettes, money, tea and coffee, and leaving their children in their prams at the Clinic. Whether the men of Kinlogie will suffer a change of heart or not, no one can say, but What's Good For The Goose is a hilarious comedy.
