Russell Plays One: Breezeblock Park; Our Day Out; Stags and Hens; Educating Rita: v.1 (Contemporary Dramatists) - Softcover

Russell, Willy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413702200 ISBN 13: 9780413702203

Verlag: Continuum, 2003

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Book by Russell Willy

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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)

Biografía del autor:

Born near Liverpool he left school at 15. One of Britain's most successful playwrights his most famous play, Blood Brothers, continues to run in London. Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita have also been turned into hugely successful films.

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• Verlag: Continuum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0413702200
• ISBN 13: 9780413702203
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388