If you were directing 'Our Day Out' how might you bring out some of Willy Russell's ideas on certain scenes?

In this essay I will concentrate on a few of Willy Russells scenes from the book. The scenes that I will be concentrating on are scenes 22, 29 and also the scene 30.

In scene 22 the director has to make a decision of what the kids are doing while they are talking to Mr Briggs about the animals, He should look very shocked and think to himself that maybe these kids do have half a brain. Also when he gets into the conversation he should start to trust them and a little smile should creep up on his faces. The children will walk over to the bear pit and look over in to it and start talking about it and how it must feel being in there on its own and not knowing what life is like outside of there or what his natural habitat is. There should be a lot of the children really describing how the animal must feel and while Mr Briggs is answering the questions he should take a step back and try to make sense of what is happening, and the kids can have a sensible conversation. This is what shocks him but he is glad that he can talk sensibly to the children.

Now in scene 29 he will take a very big turn to being back to his usual self this is when he finds out about the children taking all the animals from the zoo. When the zookeeper is running over to the bus to get the animals back he should be all red from the running that he has been doing, when this has happened Mr Briggs should look surprised why he is running over to the bus. The Zookeeper enters the bus being out of breath and be shouting ‘give them back come on give em back’. At this point Mr Briggs should start to be a little concerned at so he should ask the Zookeeper to come outside with him and ask him what he is doing, when he finds out that all the zoo animals have been stolen.

In scene 30 he should walk back on the bus and make them give them all the animals’ back. He should then give them a serious lecture on trust he should change his tone of voice depending on what he is talking about like he should talk quietly when he is trying to get a point across. When he shouts the children they should lose interest in what he is saying. Because they have all heard this before and just think that this is just another one of his talks. He should be shouting so much that spit should be coming from out of his mouth as he is talking to the children.