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Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an
education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? Willy
Russell's play gives a hilarious - and often moving - account of a
young woman's determination to change her life.
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?
Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field,
the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth
explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at
Key Stage 4. Whether for use in the classroom or independent study,
these editions offer a fully comprehensive and lightly glossed play
text with accompanying notes specifically directed towards readers
of this age, which unravel essential topics and challenge all
students to delve further into literary analysis. A well
established modern classic, Willy Russell's Blood Brothers tells
the story of Mickey and Eddie, twins separated at birth who grow up
to lead very opposite lives, but which constantly and inevitably
intersect. In addition to some on-page explanatory notes and the
play text, this edition contains sub-headed analyses of themes,
characters, context and dramatic devices, as well as background
information on the playwright. The Methuen Drama GCSE Student
Editions never lose sight of their readership, and offer students
the confidence to engage with the material, explore their own
interpretations, and improve their understanding of the works.
A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at
birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She
gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as
friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable
quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.
'Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping
than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate and
destiny ... it carries one along with it in almost unreserved
enjoyment" "Guardian"
One of the longest-running and most successful ever West End
musicals, "Blood Brothers" premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in
January 1983.
'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 This new student edition includes an introduction
covering the play's context; chronology; dramatic devices; critical
reception; production history; and key themes such as class and
identity, popular culture and education. Educating Rita portrays a
working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education. It 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 Katie
Beswick, University of the Arts London.
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.
Superior council house dwellers Betty, Reeny, Vera and their men
regard themselves as a close knit family team despite their
concealed jealousies and occasional recriminations. When Betty's
daughter Sandra announces she is pregnant and intends to live
unmarried with her student lover, the news explodes like an atom
bomb.4 women, 5 men
This cynical play by the author of Educating Rita is a comedy of
wedding eve nerves set in the loos of a tacky Liverpool club where
Dave and Linda, unbeknownst to each other, are having parties.
A Liverpool-set "West Side Story," " Blood Brothers "is the tale of
twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford
to keep them both. One of them is given away to wealthy Mrs Lyons
and grows up to be a successful government official. The other
winds up unemployed and in prison. They grow up as friends in
ignorance of their fraternity until they both fall in love with the
same woman and the inevitable quarrel unleashes a bloodbath. "Blood
Brothers" was first performed in London in 1983 and opened on
Broadway in 1993.
In Our Day Out Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' embark on an anarchic
school trip to Conwy Castle in Wales. Assisted by the authoritarian
Deputy Headmaster, Mr Briggs, the students conspire to steal
animals from the zoo and cause as much chaos as possible along the
way. This edition also includes the following short plays: The Boy
with the Transistor Radio, Terraces and I Read the News Today.
Twin brothers, Mickey and Edward, are separated at birth as their
mother cannot afford to keep them both. Raised only streets apart
in the heart of Liverpool, the boys' lives take two very different
paths. However, following a chance meeting, the pair form an
unlikely friendship. But what will happen if they ever find out the
secret of their shared history?
Musical drama / 5 male, 3 female, plus small chorus Scenery:
Interiors/Exteriors Blood Brothers, by the author of Educating Rita
and Shirley Valentine, is ahauntying rags to riches tragedy of our
times. A woman with numerous children to support surrenders one of
her new born twins to the childless woman she cleans for. The boys
grow up streets apart, never learning the truth but becoming firm
friends and falling in love with the same girl. One prospers while
the other falls on hard times. A narrator warns that a price has to
be paid for separating twins: the life of the blood brothers who
die on the day they find out they are related. "The most exciting
thing to have happened to the English musical theatre for
years."-Punch "A full bodied musical, a wonderful melodrama that is
also a thoroughly modern ballad opera."-Wall Street Journal "There
are so many good things to shout and sing about in this new
musical."-Daily Mail
Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for
education, 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
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.
The heroine in this actor's tour-de-force is an ordinary middle
class English housewife. As she prepares egg and chips for dinner,
she ruminates on her life and tells the wall about her husband, her
children, her past, and an invitation from a girlfriend to join her
on holiday in Greece to search for romance and adventure.
Ultimately, Shirley does escape to Greece, has an "adventure" with
a local fisherman and decides to stay. This hilariously engaging
play was a hit in London and New York, performed by Pauline
Collins, who later recreated her role on film garnering an Oscar
nomination.
This revised version of Willy Russell's much loved play won rave
reviews when it opened in Liverpool in 2009. Slightly updated and
featuring more songs, it retains all the humour and appeal of the
original. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical
Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary
English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of
highly effective work and publications endorsed by national
organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across
Britain, each book in the series: meets the new requirements at KS3
and GCSE (2010) features detailed, structured schemes of work
utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language
analysis places pupils' understanding of the learning process at
the heart of the activities will help pupils to boost English GCSE
success and develop high-level skills at KS3 will save teachers
considerable time devising their own resources. Mrs Kay's Progress
Class are off to Alton Towers - until Mr Briggs gets on board. The
destination might have changed in this new version of Willy
Russell's classic play, but mixing humour, lively songs and the
poignancy of the original, this drama of a class day out to
remember is ideal for Year 9 and above.
This revised version of Willy Russell's much loved play won rave
reviews when it opened in Liverpool in 2009. Slightly updated and
featuring more songs, it retains all the humour and appeal of the
original. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical
Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary
English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of
highly effective work and publications endorsed by national
organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across
Britain, each book in the series: meets the new requirements at KS3
and GCSE (2010) features detailed, structured schemes of work
utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language
analysis places pupils' understanding of the learning process at
the heart of the activities will help pupils to boost English GCSE
success and develop high-level skills at KS3 will save teachers
considerable time devising their own resources. Mrs Kay's Progress
Class are off to Alton Towers - until Mr Briggs gets on board. The
destination might have changed in this new version of Willy
Russell's classic play, but mixing humour, lively songs and the
poignancy of the original, this drama of a class day out to
remember is ideal for Year 9 and above.
Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned
outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books.
Enter Rita, a forthright 26 year-old hairdresser who is eager to
learn. After weeks of cajoling, Rita slowly wins over the very
hesitant Frank with her innate insight and refusal to accept no for
an answer. Their relationship as teacher and student blossoms,
ultimately giving Frank a new sense of self and Rita the knowledge
she so craves. The play became a hit film with Michael Caine and
Julie Walters.
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