Green Grow the Rashes

By Joe Corrie

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£2.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-876-4

Acts:

3

Females:

6

Males:

6

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Scottish Play: No. 23

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.

 

Jean, the daughter of John Burnside, and Willie the son of Peter Dunsire, neighbouring farmers, are about to be married. But the Dunsires want it to be a County Hotel affair, while John just says that if the wedding doesn't take place in his ain house it won't take place at all. Things reach a crisis. Mrs. Burnside has her own way of trying to bring the couple together again, while John has his scheme. But on the morning when they are all getting ready to go to Kilcummer Fair, Mrs. Dunsire reminds John of his handsome youth. John's imagination gets the better of him and he takes Mrs. Dunsire in his arms and kisses her.

This disgraceful conduct is seen by the others through the window and, threatened with public exposure, John capitulates to the relief of all.