Fooshion. won the first Mobil Oil Scottish Playwrights Award. It was described as being tender, bitter, funny and touching.
Fooshion, was written by Charles Barron, the North East’s most prolific playwright and was toured in 2006 by Fleeman Productions, the company which has so successfully produced other plays by Charles Barron, including Effie and Evie and Bertie, Bryce and Harry.
It has been performed several times over the last 15 years and is studied on Higher
Drama courses in some North East schools. Brilliantly funny but touched with tragedy
Fooshion is set in the backyard of a tenement building in Aberdeen in the recent
past.
Two elderly sisters bicker, reminisce, argue, wax nostalgic and disagree about
everything under the sun. Two middle-
Tragedy
touches one of the women and misfortune another but they are an indomitable breed,
the women of Aberdeen, especially those who learned to cope without men during the
2nd World War. The same spirit teaches them to cope with the problems of daily life
in the '90s.
The lively dialect and the ironic humour of the old women give the play a unique quality.
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Amang the Craws. On the face of it this is a comedy of domestic life in NE Scotland.
But there is more to the family life of the Finlaysons than meets the eye. They are
a funny family. Grannie Meg is a delightfully wicked old wifie, taking a chortling
pleasure in spreading chaos wherever she goes. Mother Maggie is so uptight her face
would split in two if she ever tried to smile. Son Donnie has been brought up to
believe he’s both the bee’s knees and the cat’s pyjamas.
Beneath the comedy of this Aberdeenshire family’s life, though, lurks a darker theme,
revealed to the audience through occasional flash-
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The Surrogate. Desperate for a child, a young couple consult their helpful GP. He just happens to have a patient who would be happy to provide a baby. The consequences are both very funny and potentially tragic. But all ends happily. Or does it?