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Educating Rita by Willy Russell (Playwright, UK)
Category: Performing Arts
‘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 ...Show more
Educating Rita: Methuen Student Edi by Willy Russell
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions Ser.
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 TimesEducating Rita was premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, i ...Show more
Educating Rita (Notes) by RUSSELL Willy
Category: Education | Series: Longman Literature Ser.
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 Ritawas premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, i ...Show more
Shirley Valentine by RUSSELL WILLY
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Shirley Valentine, 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads "Gone to Greece back in two weeks." "It is a simple and brilliant idea...the profound and perennial point of the ...Show more
THE WRONG BOY by WILLY RUSSELL
Category: Fiction
The hilarious, bittersweet novel from the playwright behind EDUCATING RITA, SHIRLEY VALENTINE and award-winning musical BLOOD BROTHERS.Dear Morrissey,I'm feeling dead depressed and down. Like a streetlamp without a bulb or a goose at the onset of Christmas time.Anyroad, I thought I'd pen a few lines to ...Show more
The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
Category: Fiction
The Dewsbury Desperadoes are on their way to Pontefract for a gig at the Allied Butchers' Architects' Club. The Girl with the Chestnut Eyes is on her way to somewhere. And Raymond is heading for Gulag Grimshy. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. His dad left ...Show more
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