Willy Russell

Twin brothers are separated at birth. One is given to wealthy Mrs. Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.

Blood Brothers

Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is "simply a marvelous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending."—Sunday Times "Like Roots and Pygmalion ... a touching play about the melancholic ways education often pulls people apart instead of bringing them together."—Guardian "Mr. Russell has taken a look at two segments of English society and engineered a collision that is as full of regret as it is of promise ... the deft moments of its best comedy are splendidly refreshing."—The Times Educating Rita premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in June 1980. Voted Best Comedy of 1980, it was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.

Educating Rita

The Wrong Boy

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"?

Our Day Out

Der Tag, an dem der elfjährige Raymond Marks in einer Schulpause per Zufall das 'Fliegenfangen' erfindet, ändert alles. Das harmlose Spiel führt für Raymond zu einem tragikomischen Leben als Aussenseiter und Sonderling, bis er schliesslich seine ganz persönliche Unabhängigkeitserklärung entwickelt.

Roman

Der Fliegenfänger

Steve Lewis

Lewis, Steve, Sr.

Roy Blatchford

Shirley Valentine

Inny chłopiec

"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

'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.

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.

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?

Peter Chepstow

A Novel

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.

Willy Russell

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