In Time O' Strife

In Time O' Strife PDF Author: Joe Corrie
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472523741
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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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.

In Time O' Strife

In Time O' Strife PDF Author: Joe Corrie
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472523741
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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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.

In time o' strife

In time o' strife PDF Author: Joe Corrie
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In Time O' Strife

In Time O' Strife PDF Author: Joe Corrie
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Pages : 67

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In Time O' Strife

In Time O' Strife PDF Author: Rachel Czwartacky
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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, communist theatre troupes, was officially formed in 1928. But while the success of Corrie's play lay in depicting an existence that the working class audiences recognized in their own world, the Workers' Theatre Movement rejected such naturalistic theatre, and instead went about cultivating a theatrical style that could convey how the world should look. This style was agitation-propaganda, or agit-prop, a dynamic and useful tool for a set of theatre troupes whose goal--communist revolution--was lofty, but whose resources--as members of the working class--were few. This project explores the ways in which the Workers' Theatre Movement developed its drama and tried to shape its consortium of individual theatre troupes into a unified artistic movement. The Workers' Theatre Movement viewed drama first and foremost as a weapon in the ongoing class struggle. As their mission was to spread communist politics and inspire action in working-class audiences, the various theatre troupes needed to create drama that was effective as propaganda, but also practical in terms of production. This project examines the practices and innovations of the Workers' Theatre Movement, in part also to explain its relatively short life span. While partially a victim of changing political climates, the Workers' Theatre Movement also hastened its own disintegration by enforcing dogmas of workers' theatre that stifled creativity and in some cases prevented the development of quality work, and failing to recognize internal contradictions and flaws until they had destroyed the effectiveness of the movement. With this work, I hope to use the Workers' Theatre Movement as an example of didactic theatre, and to explore the goals and practices of political theatre then and now. While the Workers' Theatre Movement reacted to specific historical and political contexts, it anticipated a growing interplay between theatre and activism.

The Churches of Christ in Time of War

The Churches of Christ in Time of War PDF Author: Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Maryland

Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Maryland PDF Author: Maryland. General Assembly. Senate
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 1424

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Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soal

Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soal PDF Author: George MacDonald
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425035604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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A striking collection of narrative poems about an old soul. The poems are remarkable for their stirring portrayal of human emotions. The poems are an emblem of sensitivity. A sure treat for all poetry lovers....

World of Toil and Strife

World of Toil and Strife PDF Author: Peter N. Moore
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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A case study in Upcountry community development in the colonial and early republic era

Star of the West

Star of the West PDF Author:
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Category : Bahai Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Bulletin

Bulletin PDF Author: Oriental Esoteric Society, Washington, D.C.
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Languages : en
Pages : 366

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