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Joe Corrie
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Joe Corrie
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In Time O' Strife
There's nae power on earth can crush the men who can sing on a day like this. A powerful re-imagining of Joe Corrie's neglected classic about a Fife mining community during the General Strike. To raise funds for the soup kitchens feeding the miners and their starving families, Corrie wrote In Time O' Strife in 1926 whilst on strike himself, exposing the brutal lives of a family staring hunger and defeat in the face. Some 87 years later, Graham McLaren has adapted, designed and directed this rarely performed classic play. Created by Graham McLaren (Men Should Weep, A Christmas Carol), the production uses fragments of Corrie's other plays, poems and songs, celebrating his ability as a writer and his contribution to Scottish culture. This edition pairs Corrie's original text with the script created by McLaren's adaptation process.
Joe Corrie
Webpage containing biographical information on playwright, poet, journalist and short story writer Joe Corrie, written by Chris Ravenhall.
The Politics of Alternative Theatre in Britain, 1968-1990
This book examines one of the most influential modern theatre companies, 7:84 (Scotland), under the directorship of John McGrath. 7:84 (Scotland) has been a vital contributor to the place and importance of alternative theatre on the modern British stage. DiCenzo explores the development of this company, the growth of popular theatre in general within the last twenty years and offers a methodology for analysing records and materials found in theatre company archives and illustrates the many issues inherent in running a theatre company, including venues, practitioners and the politics of funding. The book includes valuable primary source material and informative production photographs and company posters.
Poems
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In Time O' Strife
In 1926, thousands of British workers went on strike to show solidarity with miners threatened with lower wages and longer hours. The General Strike, which lasted for nine days and was one of the largest work stoppages in British history, was a massive failure. Joe Corrie, a miner from the Scottish region of Fife, channeled his disappointment at the outcome of the strike into his first full-length play, In Time O'Strife. The play dramatized the hardship of the strike through the lens of a working-class Scottish family. His work was one of the first naturalist plays to dramatize workers' lives, and it was a remarkable success. The Workers' Theatre Movement, a loose confederacy of amateur, com...
