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[ "OUR DAY OUT" BY RUSSELL, WILLY](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK

by Bob Eaton (Author), Chris Mellors (Author), Willy Russell (Author), Willy Russell (Author)

Synopsis

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. 'The skill and zest of the show ...derive from its success in following the adult argument through while preserving all the fun of a story mainly played by children ...I have rarely seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness.' The Times This edition contains the music to the play.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:

ISBN 10: 0413548708
ISBN 13: 9780413548702
Book Overview: This edition contains the music for the play Willy Russell has written some of the most popular and frequently staged plays of the last twenty-five years 'Fast, funny and curiously moving.' Guardian 'Fresh, lively and natural.' Daily Telegraph

Author Bio
Willy Russell was born in Whiston near Liverpool and left school at fifteen. He went through a succession of jobs before, at the age of twenty, he decided to take 'O' levels and 'A' levels and become a teacher. At about the same time he saw John McGrath's play Unruly Elements at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, and decided he wanted to become a playwright. His plays include: ONE FOR THE ROAD, STAGS AND HENS, EDUCATING RITA, BLOOD BROTHERS and SHIRLEY VALENTINE.