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          THE PRICE OF COAL

          By Harold Brighouse

          Gowans & Gray, Ltd., London

          1911



          FOREWORD: BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE
          SCOTTISH REPERTORY THEATRE

          “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, November 15th,
          1909. The whole week was foggy, dense,
          yellow and stinking, but the audience
          (whose scantiness, thanks to the fog,
          was unregarded by the players),
          enthusiastic outside the Theatre, as
          they were within, bruited its
          excellence, and the many and urgent
          requests for its speedy revival were
          complied with.

          It has been performed by the Repertory
          Company at Carlisle, Edinburgh and
          Perth, while a number of performances
          have been successfully given by
          amateurs.

          A. W.

          Glasgow, March, 1911.

          [EXTRACT FROM THE REPERTORY THEATRE
          PROGRAMME November 1909]

          THE PRICE OF COAL

          A play in one act By Harold Brighouse

          Mary Brown, Jack Brown, Ellen Brown,
          Polly Walker,

          Miss Agnes Bartholomew. Mr. R. B.
          Drysdale.

          Miss Elspeth Dudgeon. Miss Lola Duncan.

          The Scene is laid in a Lanarkshire
          Colliery Village.



          Modern industrialism has evolved its
          special types, and the Lanarkshire
          collier is small and wiry. He swings a
          pickaxe for hours on end crouched in an
         