Methuen Drama, 1997

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (6), Female (6), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...In Scotland during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, male farm labourers who hired on to work on farms would be required under the terms of their bond to provide a female labourer to work in tandem with them: the women who...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Modern Plays

playtext

Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the first half of the eighteenth century, The Straw Chair by Sue Glover tells the story of seventeen-year-old Isabel and her minister husband's arrival on the remote island of Hirta, also known as Saint Kilda. Their encounter...