Willy Russell

The Wrong Boy

Educating Rita

Steve Lewis

Lewis, Steve, Sr.

"Inside Mrs Joe Bradshaw--42-year-old mother of two grown children--is the former Shirley Valentine longing to get out. Her hope and self-confidence badly shattered by school, marriage and life, she is reduced to talking to the kitchen wall whilst preparing her husband's evening meal--to be on the table as he opens the front door every night. As she sips a glass of wine she dreams of drinking in a country where the grape is grown. Her feminist friend offers her a holiday in Greece and, with great trepidation and a lot of forward planning, Shirley seized the opportunity and goes, to encounter a totally different lifestyle. Shirley, breaking out of the mould cast for her by society, is brilliantly shown with humour, warm sympathy and human insight by the author of Educating Rita and Blood brothers"--

A Play

Shirley Valentine

'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 Pygmailion 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 Educating Rita, which portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education, premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in 1980 and won the SWET award for Best Comedy of the Year. It was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters and won the 1983 BAFTA award for Best Film. Commentary and notes by Steve Lewis.

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.

Our Day Out

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 themselves.

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

Russell Plays: 1

With suggestions for classroom work / by Gunther Volk. Teacher's book

Bernard Shaw

Theresa Sullivan

Pygmalion

Comments and study aids

Komedie over een oudere docent en een jonge kapster die les bij hem neemt, met annotaties en woordverklaringen.

Tony Rawdin

A poignant and hilarious play about a working class Liverpool girl's hunger for education.

John Shuttleworth

A Student Edition of the classic play, with full introduction, commentary, notes on the text and questions for study.

Peter Chepstow

A Novel

Part of a series of GCSE literature texts, with notes and pre-reading activities. This humorous and sometimes moving play features a young hairdresser, Rita, who feels that life has passed her by and decides she wants an education. But does Frank have anything to teach her?

Bob Eaton

Chris Mellors

"chaos and hilarity results when Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - via the cafe, the zoo, the beach and the funfair." --Cover.

Originally published in: Educating Rita, Stags and hens and Blood brothers. London: Methuen, 1986.

Stags And Hens

Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in the northern town of Failsworth. Until, on the banks of the Rochdale Canal, the flytrapping craze begins and, for Raymond, nothing is ever quite so normal again. The novel takes the form of a series of letters to Raymond's hero - Morrissey.

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