Welcome, Uncle Joe

By R. J. Macnee

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£1.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-997-6

Acts:

1

Females:

3

Males:

4

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Scottish Play: No. 54

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.

 

Joseph McPhater, rich but puritanical uncle, arrives unexpectedly at the McFarlane household.

The efforts of Hugh and Lizzie to humour his supposed prudishness, the sudden incursions of their very modern daughter Sally, and the arrival of one of Hugh's cronies, all combine to create a non-stop sequence of laughter-raising situations. The discovery by Hugh that Joe is not so puritanical as he seems build up the comedy to an excellent climax.

A very funny play with lots of action, " business'' and humorous lines.