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Ena Lamont Stewart, playwright who wrote the classic, Men Should Weep

WHEN the playwright Ena Lamont Stewart died, aged 93, in 2006, prominently mentioned in her obituaries was her classic play, Men Should Weep. A searing portrait of Glasgow tenement life during the 1930s Depression, it was a success in Glasgow in 1947, staged by Unity Theatre at the Athenaeum, and then in London. But she had to wait a long time for the play to be rediscovered – until 1982, in fact, when it was revived in a production directed by Giles Havergal as part of 7:84 Scotland’s Clydebuilt programme of lost working-class masterpieces. Reviewing the revival, our critic, Mary Brennan, wrote: “This finely structured masterly study of poverty in ‘30s Glasgow uses the different reactions of the women in the family as a prism reflecting not only the physical miseries inflicted by poverty but also the mental and spiritual corrosion which deprivation precipitates.”

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