| Russell Plays: 1: Breezeblock Park; Our Day Out; Stags and Hens; Educating Rita Contributor(s): Russell, Willy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413702200 ISBN-13: 9780413702203 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| LCCN: 97153162 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 4.43" W x 7.06" (0.48 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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) |