Our Day Out

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Assignment-Our Day Out

One of the major themes of the play 'Our Day Out' is the lack of education and opportunity for young people in the inner city of Liverpool. Willy Russell makes the audience aware using scenes in the play.

'Our Day Out' is based on a progress class in the inner city of Liverpool going on a trip to Wales.

There where many problems in the 70's like no money for education which means the children leave with no qualifications, and another main problem was unemployment. That affected the children too.

The play was originally written for the BBC and was first televised on the 28th December 1977.
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Russell's background is a lot like the children in his play because he was not bright and he left school with only one O'level.

Russell uses Carol's language to show the lack of education and opportunity in the inner city of Liverpool, and the same in their schools.

"Carol.... It's Mrs Kay's class. Y' go down there if y'can't do sums or writing. If y'backward like.

Les.... She's kept busy. They're all bloody backward round here"

This is a good quote between Carol and Les because it shows you that Carol knows she's not ...

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