Russell Plays: 1 : Breezeblock Park; Our Day Out; Stags and Hens; Educating Rita Paperback / softback
by Willy Russell
Part of the Contemporary Dramatists series
Paperback / softback
Description
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)
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:12/08/1996
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- ISBN:9780413702203
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:12/08/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413702203