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'The Price of Coal' is a play originally written and produced in 1909 by the playwright Harold Brighouse. It follows the lives of a coal miner's family living in a cottage in Lanarkshire. Jock Brown bids his wife Mary goodbye and leaves for his shift at the coal mine. Meanwhile, Ellen Brown, Jock's mother comes to visit. But when they get news that the coal mine has collapsed, the two women wait anxiously for news of Jock…
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Harold Brighouse
Playwright Harold Brighouse (1882–1958) remains best known for his 1916 classic Hobson’s Choice. The story of how a tyrannical Lancashire boot maker is brought down to earth by his daughter and her simple husband, Hobson’s Choice has been much revived and was last seen in London at The Young Vic in 2003. It was filmed by David Lean with Charles Laughton and John Mills, and even adapted into a ballet. Brighouse brought a new and groundbreaking style to British theatre, portraying the bleak and harsh lives of the working classes, but combining it with a unique Northern flavour and wit. He was a leading member of the ‘Manchester School’ of playwrights, along with well known Northern writers such as Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse, a group of writers all largely based at Annie Horniman’s Gaiety Theatre, Manchester. The Finborough Theatre revived Harold Brighouse's The Northerners in 2010.
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The Price of Coal - Harold Brighouse
Harold Brighouse
The Price of Coal
A Play
EAN 8596547102953
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Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
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FOREWORD: BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE SCOTTISH REPERTORY THEATRE
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"The Price of Coal" came from a Manchester author; it was in Lancashire dialect, but was freely translated into that of Lanarkshire, before its first production on Monday,
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