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3 | ->''If you want to come and see me, take a dauner doon the steamie.'' |
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5 | 1987 play by Tony Roper set in the Carnegie Street steamie somewhere in Glasgow on a [[UsefulNotes/ScottishEnglish Hogmanay]] evening sometime in the early 1950s. STV [[TheFilmOfThePlay adapted the play for television]] in 1988, and it has since become a staple of festive season. |
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7 | !!Provides examples of: |
8 | * ACupAngst: Apparently this has been a source of concern for Magrit's daughter, Teresa. Magrit ends up getting Teresa her first bra as a Christmas present and Teresa is absolutely delighted. |
9 | * TheAlcoholic: Magrit's husband, Peter. They aren't going out to celebrate because he's already drank himself into a stupor. Andy the boilerman is implied to be headed down this road as well. |
10 | * BittersweetEnding: The show ends with "All The Best When It Comes", a song [[NewYearHasCome about the year coming to end]] and asking if [[PerpetualPoverty the material conditions that the characters live in will ever really change even if the slums are replaced by council estates]]. |
11 | * BusbyBerkeleyNumber: In the TV production, "Pals" has a few shots of the cast from above in the middle of the song. |
12 | * CreepyPhysical: Doreen mentions that she thinks that Dr [=McCann=] is creepy and that she doesn't like going to see him. |
13 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: A major theme of the play is the demise of the slum neighbourhoods of Glasgow and their gradual replacement by council estates. The others tease Doreen for wanting a house with a garden and a telephone and other things that had become standard even in low-income housing by the 1980s: |
14 | -->''Four apartments and a view, and an inside toilet too.'' |
15 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After Magrit finishes her monologue, Dolly asks her who she's talking to. She answers that she's talking to herself, before giving an AsideGlance at the camera. |
16 | * FiftiesHair: Doreen has a bubble cut - part of her Christmas present from her husband, John - but she and the rest of cast all wear their in hair up in Rosie-the-Riveter-style headscarves while they're at the Steamie. |
17 | * FriendshipSong: "Pals" is a song all about the benefits of friendship. |
18 | * FunetikAksent: Magrit is presumably named "Margaret", with her name as it appears in the script being a phonetic spelling. |
19 | * HatesBaths: Magrit claims that it's "a fight tae the death" to get her sons to wash themselves. |
20 | * HiddenDepths: Dolly was quite a keen ballroom dancer as a younger woman. She was particularly good at at the tango because her "bowley leg" made it easier to do the dips. |
21 | * MySecretPregnancy: The women gossip about Maureen [=McCandlish=], who supposedly had a baby out of wedlock when she was "[[StigmaticPregnancyEuphemism away working in England.]]" The pregnancy is rumoured to have been [[TheOldestProfession work-related]], since a neighbour ran into her [[RedLightDistrict Blythswood Square]], where she gets approached by a potential john from one of [[HornySailors the boats]]. |
22 | * [[RamblingOldManMonologue Rambling Auld Wummin Monologue]]: Mrs Culfeathers delivers a couple of these, which partly act as historical anecedotes intended to be of interest to the audience. |
23 | * SeinfeldianConversation: Magrit and Doreen chat about differences between fight scenes in British and American films. |
24 | * SomewhereSong: "A House in Drumchapel", where Doreen sings about her hopes for a new life in a brand new council house in Drumchapel, part of comedy of the song being derived from the 1980s audience being aware of the area's [[WretchedHive reputation and general state]] as having deteriorated significantly since UsefulNotes/TheFifties. It gets a reprise later in the show that [[DarkReprise hints at the isolation and loss of the community spirit that existed in the slums]] that people often experienced when they moved out to council estates. |
25 | * ShoutOut: The TV adaptation opens with "Look at That Girl" by Guy Mitchell on the soundtrack. |
26 | ** Doreen finds herself getting a bit hot under the collar watching Tony Curtis in ''Flesh and Fury'' |
27 | ** Doreen's idea of what life in Drumchapel will be like is apparently based on "a picture called ''[[Film/OnMoonlightBay Moonlight Bay]]''." |
28 | ** The ending of "A House in Drumchapel" includes the opening notes of "[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} When You Wish Upon a Star]]" |
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