Explain how Mr Briggs and Mrs Kays characters change throughout the course of the play Our Day Out
Explain how Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay�s characters change throughout the course of the play �Blood Brothers� The play �Our Day Out� was written about the children and teachers from a comprehensive school located in a deprived area of southern Liverpool. The play follows the events that occur throughout the day as the children and teachers embark on a school trip to Conwy Castle in Wales. There are a few main characters in the play but two of the most influential ones are Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay who are both teachers but that is about all they seem to share in common. Mrs Kay is a fun loving relaxed teacher that seems to care more for the children�s well being and happiness rather than their education. This is very different to the views of her work colleague Mr Briggs; he doesn�t feel the need to grow close or get to know the children and as long as they�re listening to him and doing as they are told he doesn�t care. Basically he thinks the only thing that matters is the children�s education. So as you can see the two teachers have very different views on education in combination with completely opposite personalities which do clash, resulting in them not being the biggest fans of each other. So what happens when they�re forced to work together outside if the classroom? To begin with why don�t we
"Our Day Out". Describe a funny scene and a serious one and show how the playwright manages to affect the audience in different ways.
Our day out: Describe a funny scene and a serious one and show how the play Wright manages to affect the audience in different ways? Our day out was written by Willy Russell. Willy Russell was born in Whiston, on the Liverpool outskirts, where he grew up. His parents worked in a book publisher's and often encouraged him to read. After leaving school with one O-level in English, he first became a ladies' hairdresser and ran his own salon. Russell then undertook a variety of jobs, also writing songs which were performed in local folk clubs. He also contributed songs and sketches to local radio programmers’. At 20 years old, he returned to college, and later Liverpool Hope University, and became a teacher in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. Around this time he met his wife, Annie, and became interested in writing drama. As he grew up in Liverpool and worked in various jobs there in his adult life, he knew what it was like. He expressed this culture of negativity in his writing, giving a ‘voice’ to these people, who he had affection for and understanding of. The play 'Our Day Out' is about a group of under achieving kids, who go for a day out to Wales with two teachers. On one side we have the very strict male teacher Mr Briggs, who intends the kids to have a bright future and wants them to always learn. On the other hand we have a very soft hearted and Sympathetic female
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GCSE Assignment - Our Day Out Willy Russell wrote our Day out in 1977. The story is set in a working class area in Liverpool. The theme of this story is about a group of academically challenged children who go on a trip. The school is an inner city comprehensive school and many of the children come from poor or single parent families. The story tells us the troubles that the children and teachers come across. We also see changes in people's characters, we see how the trip has helped them to change. The aim of the trip is for the to have fun as the children are academically challenged with little chance of passing exams or getting a good job. There are two main teachers in the play; Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs. Both of them have different teaching methods and both of them work in their own way. Mrs Kay has a more sympathetic, caring and lenient attitude to the children, which would explain why the children like her so much. Mr Briggs has a harsh, stern and disciplined attitude to the children again which would explain why the children hate him so much yet fear him also. It is very clear from the beginning that Mrs Kay supports the children. She supports them in the way that she does because she knows that these children have no real chance in life and therefore feels sorry for them so she tries to support them as much as she can. These children will probably end up on the 'dole'
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Our day out Our day out is written by Willie Russell the author is a comical and humorous within his text but within the text it also covers some serious issues with some serious messages, set in Liverpool where the author originates from is a deprived area, for the story itself it is about a school trip for the progress class to Wales to visit an old castle wreck but the progress visits a lot more than just the old ruins the basic plot is that of the class teacher Mrs. Kay to give the progress class a chance to have a bit of fun but it also tells us of the differences of teaching styles and how members of staff sometimes do hide their true feelings and when they are enjoying them selves show a completely different side of them selves and this particular book covers many different themes it shows us that of the class enjoying themselves, to Mr. Briggs being very angry with them but also it asks some very difficult questions , what does the government do for deprived children who do not have much chance to ever catch up to the levels and why do children "slip through the net" and why are there not the experiences, opportunities and again why is there not the support out there for them to find a good paying job? The author has based this story from his own personal experiences from when he himself lived in Liverpool as a child and like thousands of other children "slipped
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Willy Russell was born in Liverpool in 1947. At school Willy was a failure, which made it harder for him to become a writer. When he left school with one English O' level he became a hairdresser. After that had found a temporary job stacking boxes in a warehouse. He returned to school and got A' Level while training to be a teacher. He wrote and produced his first stage play. After 18 months the success of his musical 'John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert' enabled him to write full time resulting in many stage, television and screen plays including 'Stags and Hens', 'One for the road', 'Educating Rita', 'One summer' and 'Shirley Valentine'. The types of pupils that attend the innercity secondary school are children with a poor lifestyle and with unemployment in the family. I think the school is an old building with very little modern resources and broken windows, which is situated near a busy road. The pupils in the progress class are remedial and need a lot of help and are not highly thought of by themselves and by most of the teachers. In Mrs. Kay's view "rejects since the day they were born". In 'Our day out' a class of remedial students go on a trip to a place called Conwy Castle with four teachers, Colin, Susan, Mrs. Kay and Mr. Briggs. They firstly stop off at a pair of shops. A male shopkeeper closes his shop when he sees the children coming towards him. He is
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How does Willy Russell create dramatic tension in the cliff scene of "Our Day Out"? The play is about a school trip to the Conwy Castle in Wales. The teacher Mrs Kay teaches a remedial class for illiterate children, called the Progress Class. The whole class including Reilly and Digga who use to be in the Progress Class are taken on a coach trip. They planned originally to go on a trip to the castle. But they also end up visiting the zoo, beach and fairgrounds. The play was set in Liverpool when a lot of people were living on poverty and working in factories in the late 1970s. The cliff scene involved Carol and Briggs. Carol is a shy and ignored person. 'Miss, when do we have to go home?' (Being ignored by Mrs Kay). She is also a deep thinker. Carol loved being in Wales, she was worried that soon they will all have to go back to school, 'Miss, when do we have t' go home?' she wanted to stay at the beach in Wales and not go back to school. Briggs didn't allow that and was trying to get Carol away from the cliff because it was dangerous for her. It wasn't normal for a child on a school trip to be wandering around on the top of a cliff. Carol didn't want to go back to school and kept saying to Mr Briggs what she'll do if he tries to come near her or try to grab her. Carol thought that even if she came down from the cliff and followed Mr Briggs instructions of going back
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"In 'Our Day Out' Willy Russell Provides Us With Important Messages Whilst Keeping Us Entertained." Discuss this statement with reference to the characters, events and techniques used in the play. 'Our Day Out' was first made as a television play in 1977. The play was set in Liverpool when a lot of people were living on poverty and working in factories. Shortly after the television play was broadcast, Willy Russell released the new script. In 1978, the stage version was produced and altered to suit the primacies. In the following essay, I am going to write about how the author, Willy Russell, puts across the point of poverty and unemployment onto a play whilst making it entertaining. Firstly, I am going to comment on how Willy uses the children of the play to pursue how the kids of Liverpool were brought up in society. The first point I am going to make is on how the children aren't given the chance to get a good education and on how they are prejudged on because they are in a progress class. Ronnie the driver prejudges them because they aren't in a posh school like he usually works for. A quote to support this point is when he says, 'we usually only do the better schools.' This is an example of how the children are judged on just because they go to a less well-funded school. Next I am going to talk about how they don't get a chance to have a good education. This is
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OUR DAY OUT :- THE EFFECTS OF CHARACTER IN ACTION THE USE OF DRAMATIC DEVICES and THE LAYERS OF MEANING IN LANGUAGE, IDEAS AND THEMES Writers are influenced by the historical times in which they live. Everyday of their lives, what they say and the way they act is influenced by the time in which they live. The 70s influenced Willy Russell in his writing. There are many examples of this in Our Day Out such as the style of the fair and the shop, the way the characters speak and the things that are going on, for example the description of the economic slump at the time. One of the reasons for Britain's industry being in decline was, that it was unable to be competitive on price against other countries who had new technology. The technology increased productivity and reduced costs through the use of less labour. As a result, some of the main industries in Britain had great financial difficulty and had to close down or reduce the work force causing a loss in jobs and high unemployment. This caused poverty and meant that people could not afford decent property and had to move into council homes. Class differences occurred, dividing people who had money and decent homes from people with little money and poor homes or no home at all. Willy Russell's writing was inspired by experiences when he was a teacher at a comprehensive school. Whilst he was a teacher at the school,
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Our Day Out The play 'Our Day Out' is set in Liverpool and on a school trip to Conwy Castle. It is set in the 1970s; children would have been separated into two different schools - grammar school and the comprehensive school. The play is about the progress class, which is a class for children with reading/writing problems. In 1970 the progress class students would not have had a good career prospects as there was already high unemployment and more factories were shutting down. Willy Russell didn't like school much. He repelled against factory work strongly, he hoped to be an author in the future. Like the other students in his play, he struggled against a society which expected him to fail. Russell presents us with two different teachers, Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs, both of then had different ways of teaching. Mrs Kay chooses to use the pastoral way of teaching and likes to have a calm, motherly relationship with the students. She knows that her students will most properly go on to do factory work, so she wants them to have a happy childhood 'Most of them were rejects on the day they were born ..... Cant we just try and give them a good day out?' Mr Briggs on the other hand, believes in a strict, academic teaching style. His relationship with the students is up tight and cautious. He doesn't trust any of the children and looks unimpressed with some of the other members of staff
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Our Day Out Anthony Stapleton Introduction Willy Russell was inspired to write Our Day Out by his own experiences when he was a teacher at a comprehensive school. The play is set in a very run down part of Liverpool in the early 70s. This play is about a progress class which go on a trip for the first time, the deputy head who joins the trip unexpectedly changes this and believes they should be quiet and not have so much fun but to learn. As the day goes on the children get up to all sorts of mischief including stealing, eventually the deputy head finds out about this and his attitude towards the kids deteriorate further. Mr Briggs just wants to get them back to school as soon as possible. When put into a situation however with one of the children threatening to jump from a cliff he loosens up and takes the class to the fair where they have a great time. However at the end of the day Mr Briggs takes the negatives of him being fun and happy and exposes them to the light. At the start of the play you learn a bit about the children and the type of lives that they live. They are living in the inner city of Liverpool, which comes across as a poor area and where council homes are situated. The first character introduced to us is Carol, a younger girl who explains what the progress class is and that they are going on a trip. She seems to lack intelligence and it doesn't seem