Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In Scotland during the 19th and early 20th centuries, male farm labourers who were hired 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 worked under these terms...
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In Scotland during the 19th and early 20th centuries, male farm labourers who were hired 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 worked under these terms - primarily in the Border countryside in south-east Scotland - were known as bondagers. Sue Glover's play, set on a typical farm in the 1860s, tells the story of Tottie, a bondager girl, who falls in love with a 'black-eyed plooman' named Kello, an unseen presence who haunts the fringes of this play.
Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Set in the 18th century, 'The Straw Chair' tells the story of 17-year-old Isabel and her minister husband's arrival on the remote island of Hirta, or St Kilda. Their encounter with the island's inhabitants, and especially the disturbing Rachel of...
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Set in the 18th century, 'The Straw Chair' tells the story of 17-year-old Isabel and her minister husband's arrival on the remote island of Hirta, or St Kilda. Their encounter with the island's inhabitants, and especially the disturbing Rachel of Grange, changes their lives forever. A real historical figure, Rachel of Grange was involved in a bitter divorce; her actions led to her erstwhile husband being successfully tried for treason. He, in turn, had her kidnapped and incarcerated on various remote Scottish islands. 'The Straw Chair', premiered in Edinburgh in 1988, is set during one such incarceration, on Hirta.
