JAMES SCOTLAND (1917 - 1983)
| Nationality: | Scottish |
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Plays by James Scotland
Baptie's Lass |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 206). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Caledonian Rant | One act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | Based on "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare | |||||
| Synopsis: | A penniless Border Lord tames the wilful daughter of a rich merchant | |||||
Burning Question, The |
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| 1st Published: | Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Scottish / Black Comedy | One act | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | A very important member of the Royal Family is due to open a Tourist Centre when scandal concerning one of his bailies reaches the ears of the Lord Provost | |||||
Cambusdonald Royal |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1973 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1974 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
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| Synopsis: | When their convent burns down the nuns are put up in a nearby monastery - they bring their secret liqueur recipe with them | |||||
Daurk Assize |
| 1st Produced: | Aberdeen College of Education | 1965 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 217). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | The Morality of Everyman Told In Scots | |||||
Day Of Wrath |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 196). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1977 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Scottish Drama With Verse | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | A band of pilgrims arrive at an inn for the night. All but one meet their doom | |||||
Fawcett |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 218). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Sabbatical Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Fawcett's business has not been going too well. He buys an old desk and discovers it has a secret drawer | |||||
Friends of The People |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 204). Brown, Son & Ferguson, nd | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy in Scots | One act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 |
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| Notes: | One act version of "Wild Geese" | |||||
| Synopsis: | The Sheriff of Lanark discovers there are two rebels in his house | |||||
Girl of the Golden City |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 216). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play with Folk Music | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Grand Finale |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 203). Brown, Son & Ferguson, nd | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Scots Comedy in 1 Act | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | With the advent of the "talkies" a group of players face the end of their careers on stage | |||||
Hallowe'en |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 202). Brown, Son & Ferguson, nd | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Decameronian Adventure | One act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | A group of monks want to impress a potential benefactor so they cast a spell | |||||
Highlander |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 209). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | A D 30 and a prisoner is being interrogated at the home of the High Priest in Jerusalem | |||||
Himself When Young |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1975 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | The Laird of Gleniscar went missing twenty years ago after the Battle of Culloden. His wife has many wooers. A one-eyed tinker arrives with a strange story | |||||
Hogmanay |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Hogmanay 1461 and the monks at the monastery find that they are in trouble and it concerns a group of distressed nuns | |||||
Holy Terror, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1978 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Scottish Historical Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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| Notes: | Freely adapted from Moliere's 'Tartuffe'. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A sparkling Scots comedy loosely based on Moliere's 'Tartuffe'. This play loses nothing of it's original earthiness in it's successful transplant into 17th century Edinburgh. | |||||
Honours of Drumlie |
| 1st Produced: | Citizens Theatre, Glasgow | 1955 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1972 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Scottish Comedy in Three Acts | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 |
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| Synopsis: | The Jacobite army is in retreat back to Scotland they arrive in the Lanarkshire town of Drumlie | |||||
Hundred Thousand Welcomes, A |
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| 1st Published: | Brown and Ferguson 1982 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 8 |
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| Synopsis: | The ladies of a small Scottish village have their lives disrupted when some tycoons arrive searching for oil | |||||
Lucinda |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1958 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1974 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Scottish Comedy in Three Acts | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 8 |
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| Notes: | Music by Arthur Blake. The play "Lucy, Lucy, Lucy" with music | |||||
| Synopsis: | Two tobacco tycoons battle it out. The daughter of one falls in love with an excise man | |||||
Lucy, Lucy, Lucy |
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| 1st Published: | Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy of the Tobacco Lords in Three Acts | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 8 |
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| Synopsis: | Two tobacco tycoons battle it out. The daughter of one falls in love with an excise man | |||||
Moon Cactus |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 212). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Episode | One act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | A young Scottish student plays a strange tune on his whistle and a visitor appears | |||||
Rape of the Mace |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 210). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Collegiate Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | The absent minded professor of Church History finds himself in trouble when the University's mace goes missing | |||||
Shilling for the Beadle |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 201). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1970 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Scots Comedy in 1 Act | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | He has been finding it increasingly difficult to keep his family on the salary he earns - when an old college friend arrives with a scheme to make money | |||||
Sorcerer's Tale, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1968 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Hallowe'en Bleeze | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Surgeon For Lucinda |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 205). Brown, Son & Ferguson, nd | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Glasgow Fairy Tale | One act | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Freely adapted from Moliere's comedy 'L'Amour Medecin' | |||||
| Synopsis: | When her father disapproves of her choice for husband the young woman and her maid hatch a plot | |||||
Union Riots |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 207). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Scottish Comedy in 1 Act | One act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | The Lord Provost of Glasgow believes that his son is too good for the woman he wants to marry | |||||
We'll Go No More A'Reivin |
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| 1st Published: | (Scottish Plays No. 211). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Border Legend | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | The wives of two Border Lairds try to bring their husbands to their senses | |||||
Whisky Galore |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1966 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Scottish Comedy in Three Acts | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 8 |
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| Notes: | From the Novel by Compton Mackenzie | |||||
| Synopsis: | The inhabitants of two Hebridean islands cannot believe their luck when the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground | |||||
Wild Geese At Midnight |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1970 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Scottish Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
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| Synopsis: | The Sheriff of Lanark discovers there are two rebels in his house | |||||