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[...]
The filmscript - specially adapted by Willy Russell into a full-length play. Shirley Valentine has no one to talk to but the kitchen wall. Surely there's more to life than egg and chips on Tuesdays and steak on Thursdays? On a Greek island, husband left behind, her dream of escape turns into real[...]
Part of the "Modern plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .[...]
Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free from school. This edition contains the music for the play.[...]
Twin brothers are seperated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.[...]
"Stags and Hens" takes place in the gents and ladies loos of a tacky Liverpool club, where Dave and Linda, unbeknownst to each other, hold their stag and hen partie[...]
Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, 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 Educating Rita premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London,[...]
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. The television play "Our Day Out" asks what can a group of back-street kids from Liverpool expect from life beyond a rare "day out"?[...]
Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a northern town. Until, on the banks of the Rochdale Canal, the flytrapping craze begins and, for Raymond, nothing is ever quite so normal again.[...]
Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education, but does Frank have anything to teach her? This edition is part of a series of pre- and post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds. The series features fiction, anthologies, poetry, plays and non-fiction.[...]
A Student Edition of Willy Russell's play, with introduction, commentary, notes on the text and questions for study. This edition contains the author's revised version of the play, produced in 2002.[...]
Willy Russell beschreibt in seinem St?ck ?Educating Rita? die Ver?nderung der Protagonistin, nachdem sie beschlossen hat, einen Bildungsabschluss an der Summer School nachzuholen. Es wird der Versuch unternommen, einen Zusammenhang zwischen Bildung auf der einen und sozialer Stellung auf der anderen[...]