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Russell Plays: 1 Willy Russell

Russell Plays: 1 By Willy Russell

Russell Plays: 1 by Willy Russell


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Summary

A collection of four plays by Willy Russell. The plays are Educating Rita, Breezeblock Park, Our Day Out and Stags and Hens. All the plays are concerned with working class people striving to enjoy life or improve themselve

Russell Plays: 1 Summary

Russell Plays: 1: Breezeblock Park; Our Day Out; Stags and Hens; Educating Rita by Willy Russell

Breezeblock Park is set on a northern council estate and takes a look at the suffocating effect of possessions and possessiveness: Trenchantly observed...hilarious, upsetting and somewhat seditious. (Variety); Our Day Out is about a school coach trip, an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up - a Dickensian fairytale...I have rarely seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness.(The Times); Stags and Hens takes place in the gents and Ladies loos of a tacky Liverpool club, where Dave and Linda have decided, unbeknownst to each other to hold their stag and hen parties...a bleakly funny and perceptive study of working-class misogyny, puritanism and waste (Guardian); Educating Rita: one way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education...another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross between Pygmalion and Lucky Jim. A fourth, that it is simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious: a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending. (Sunday Times)

About Willy Russell

One of the most-produced writers of his time, Willy Russell (b. Whiston, Liverpool, 23 Aug. 1947) is a playwright and songwriter. He has written a large number of highly successful plays and musicals for stage and TV including John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert (1974), Breezeblock Park (1975), One for the Road (1976),Our Day Out (television 1977; stage musical version 1983), Stags and Hens (1978; filmed as Dancin' thru the Dark, 1990), Educating Rita (1979), Blood Brothers(1981; musical version 1983), and Shirley Valentine (1986). His novel, The Wrong Boy, was published to great acclaim in 2000.

Table of Contents

Breezeblock Park; Our Day Out; Stags and Hens; Educating Rita

Additional information

GOR001708698
9780413702203
0413702200
Russell Plays: 1: Breezeblock Park; Our Day Out; Stags and Hens; Educating Rita by Willy Russell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1996-08-12
384
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