Charles Barron
Playwright
A Bosie for Luck?
Life on the Aberdeenshire farm provided a humdrum existence for Elsie despite having to cope with a weird sister, a husband obsessed with his pet doos, a saucy serving lass and an unpredictable neighbour. Nevertheless she didn’t find any of that very exciting.
But she didn’t realise how lucky she was. For suddenly she is swept into a series of events so unexpected and dramatic that they change the lives of everyone around her – and she feels that she alone is responsible.
Charles Barron again exploits the rich comic
possibilities of the lives and characters of the
people of the north east as created by David
Toulmin. But eventually the laughter must
stop as Elsie’s fate takes its unexpected twist.
As her fey sister, Bathia, warns,
‘Deaths aye come in threes’.
A Bosie for Luck? is loosely based on
incidents and characters from the short
stories of David Toulmin, some of whose
stories provided the basis for Charles
Barron’s one-
and Harry, all of which were toured by
Fleeman Productions.
