Our Day Out - a play written by Willie Russell.
Our Day Out Coursework Victoria Olubi Which of the teachers Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay are best suited for the needs of the progress class? This is a play written by Willie Russell. It is based around a school trip from the inner cities of Liverpool to Conway Castle in Wales. This play focuses on the Progress class and their first outing on a trip with two teachers called Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay. The Progress class is made up of children aged between12-14. They are special needs children with learning difficulties, and are taught by Mrs Kay who is in charge of the trip. This essay, concentrates on which of the teachers, Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay are best sited for the needs of the Progress class. The main pupil in which this play focuses on is a 13-year-old girl named Carol. Carol is a poor young girl who is eager to attend the trip; she rushes to school with enthusiasm. 'Carol rushes along the street wearing.... which doubles as a street outfit and her Sunday best'. (Scene one) This quote indicates that Carol is enthusiastic to go to school on this particular day. The writer uses this description of Carol to show that she comes from a poor background with little wealth. We know this because she wears her school uniform every day of her life. When Carol approaches the zebra crossing her conversation with Les, the lollipop man shows
Compare the characters of Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs from Willie Russell's 'our day out' Whose styles of teaching do You think is best for the progress class?
Compare the characters of Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs from Willie Russell's 'our day out' Whose styles of teaching do? You think is best for the progress class? Introduction: Our day out is a well-known play with two teachers, which I will concentration on, as it is my coursework question. In this essay I will explore the teacher's style, tempers, and opinions and communicate with the children. The play is set in Liverpool and based on a progress class, which is in Mrs Kay supervision, but Mr Briggs is asked to accompany them by the headmaster. I will decide who is best for the progress class based on teaching methods and how the children respond to them. Firstly I am going to describe Mrs Kay: This character reminds me of a friendly grandma. She is gentle and kind with the children e.g., "she always reminds me of a mother hen rather than a teacher comments Mr Briggs". Also in the written scripted it gave you the impression that she was quite young but in the film she appears to be quite old. Even though she is portrayed as an elderly lady in the film her teaching styles and techniques seems that of a young teacher. Willie Russell has made her to be, for the children and totally on their side. However Mr Briggs has a completely different approach to teaching and I doubt he has any respect for the children views and opinions. Whereas Mrs Kay seems younger in the book but
How do Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay relate to each other and their students?
Our Day Out- Willy Russell By john wailey Q) How do Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay relate to each other and their students? The play emphasises upon the issues of how the circumstances of the children, whether they are rich or poor affects their educational achievement, where the play is about students that come from a poor background going to a school trip. As the children are from a poor background they shouldn't really have such high hopes for their futures as they are more likely to be unsuccessful in school. This is highlighted by the differences of how the rich are able to benefit from their educational achievements as more opportunities are offered to them. Whereas the poor gain rather few opportunities that are offered to them. The play is set in Liverpool, where the area of Liverpool is portrayed in the play as being rather poor area to live in, where a student talks about how dirty the area is.. There is a high rate of unemployment that exists within this area, where only a few people have jobs. This is due to there being few opportunities for the children, when they leave school as it seems that they have had a wasted education. Furthermore there are many single parent families and so there is a lack of male role model as many fathers have left their families and so there is no one to teach the children how to behave. This leads to children to behave badly. This is
Dying Future
Original Writing-Year 10 Coursework Dying Future No, this shouldn't have happened where have I gotten into, I'm trapped as a "helpless fly caught in a spider's web" as it tries getting out of it but it can't "Helpless" all it can do is wait for its life to end, as I am right now. My mama always told me to keep away from weapons she used to say, "never hold a gun son it ends lives" Well she was right. I ended someone's life. My name is John, John Barnes today believe or not I was in the court' and was life sentenced. I killed him, I killed him, I killed Mark Hopkins. I ain' t a bad person, I had my reasons that was forceful enough to turn a sane person into a insane one. I had a happy life once, a wife Carol who was caring and loved me and I had a little daughter named Jessica, haven't seen her for a while now. I should've listened to my Mama, mama's advise had always been helpful in my life. But situations just got to me dragged me down, as if it had some sort of magnetic field around it, so deep into it that I ask god himself "please put no one in these situations ever" I sometimes ask myself a question " Should I have done it? Should I have killed someone for the drastic moment I was going through?" Part of me tells me I was wrong to kill someone, but the other part tells me I did what I had to do. I had many important things to do in my life, like walking my
How and why are each of the characters trapped in “Our Day Out”
How and why are each of the characters trapped in "Our Day Out" By Jenna Sweet. Willy Russell was born in 1947 at Whiston near Liverpool. He was recognised as 'thinking' working class. He left school at the age of 15 with just one 'O level' gained in Technology. Willy Russell had uncertain ideas about his potential career, however he often thought of fulfilling his desire and becoming a writer. Paradoxically, he became a hairdresser. Subsequent to this he followed his desire to write, producing a range of songs. This obsession overwhelmed Willy Russell and it began to take over his hairdressing profession. Willy Russell began to work for several industrial companies. Still not content, he decided to depart to his full- time education. Willy Russell studied at St Catherine's College of Education where he became a dramatist. This led to his first play 'Blind Scouse'. In 1977 'Our Day Out' was published. At this particular duration of society, many people were suffering from unemployment. England was in deep recession. The coal miners went on strike; the factories were suffering from lack of employment. Liverpool was in chaos. Willy Russell demonstrated this chaos in the play Our Day Out. He showed the poor education system; this highlighted how Liverpool needed aid to avoid the riots that were happening there in the late 1970's. Indeed this reflected the mood in society as
A comparison of 'The Last Resort' and 'Our Day Out'
A comparison of 'The Last Resort' and 'Our Day Out' The option for this performance was option 2 and the play we are doing is 'The Last Resort' by Chris Owen. It is set in the present day in a British seaside resort and tells the stories of the days various different groups of people, and animals, have. In 'The Last Resort' I play Frances Fairweather, a traffic reporter, and Hope Bright, an extremely posh and naïve teenager. To show that I am playing Frances, I put my hands over my ears to make it look like I'm wearing head phones. I also shout as I am meant to be in a helicopter and there is a noise being made over me. To show I am playing Hope, I stand up quite straight and put on a 'posh' accent. The play I am going to compare it to is 'Our Day Out' which is a televised drama. It is set in the 1970's and is about a group of children and teachers, from inner-city Liverpool, that go on a school trip to Wales. In 'Resort' there is a wide variety of classes which include old, young, rich, poor and animals. The animals are actual characters in the plays but they have human characteristics. To show the animals people changed their accents and speed of their speech. For example, the donkeys have very slow, Yorkshire accents. They are all stereotypes of the character, which are exaggerated by a heightened acting style although. Some show that even though someone might act one
Our Day Out
How does Willy Russell create dramatic tension in the cliff scene of "our day out?" The play 'Our Day Out' written by Willy Russell is about a progress class from the heart of Liverpool that go on a trip to Conway Castle in Wales. Mr Briggs and Carol are involved in the cliff scene. The cliff scene is about Carol sneaking away from the others to the cliff, she is later found by Mr Briggs. Carol threatens to jump off the cliff so that she can stay in Wales and not go back to Liverpool. Willy Russell may have written this play to show how schools are in Liverpool. The message that Willy Russell is trying to convey is that the progress classes in Liverpool are not going to get very far in life; the teachers that teach them also believe this and have no hope in them except Mr Briggs. The essay question is, how does Willy Russell create dramatic tension in the cliff scene of "our day out"? In this essay I will be writing about Mr Briggs, carol and the stage directions. Mr Briggs's personality is very brutal and he is a very arrogant man. "Right, McNally, go and sit at the back." In this quote Briggs is ordering an innocent boy to go and sit at the back, in a rude way. This quote shows that Mr Briggs is an impatient man. Mr Briggs tone of voice in the beginning of the cliff scene is loud and grumpy. "I'm talking to you, Carol Chandler. Now just listen here, young lady...", in
Our Day Out
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. 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 clever and that Les thinks everybody's dumb. This is a bit of black comedy because we laugh at Carols disadvantages in reading and writing. At the zoo Ronson is saying that the living conditions of the bears are bad and they think about a
Our day out
Our Day out Our day out is a play written by Willy Russell, It's about unfortunate school children that go on a school trip. This play is set in the 1970's in Liverpool. The setting and culture makes good theatre. This is because it is set in Liverpool and the characters are poor and needy. This can create conflict and humour. We can also learn something from it E.G, what is it like to live life the way they live it. Also as it is set in the 1970's we learn what school was like and how different it is to now a days. It also is good theatre as it has a sense of realism, something we can all relate to. Willy Russell does this by the setting the scene around a school and a coach trip. We can all relate to it as we have all been to school and most probably been on a school trip including Willy Russell; Because of this he has made it exactly what it would be like on a coach; for example, the naughty boys would be at the back of the coach doing things a shouldn't, where as the teachers would be sitting at the front of the coach chatting. Many of the characters in the play have strong personalities. Some of them being children, which are from the progress class. There are some adults in the play which are teachers, others are people they met on their day out for example, shop keepers, buss driver, zoo keeper... Our 1st impression of Mrs. Kay comes from scene 2 just before the
OUR DAY OUT
OUR DAY OUT Essay by Adam Fraser In this essay I am going to compare the characters of Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs form Our Day Out by Willy Russell, where under privileged children from Liverpool are taken on a school trip to Wales and we see two very different styles of teaching. Mrs Kay is the teacher of the progress class and the children really like her; Rielly to Mrs Kay 'You're ace miss.' She is in her early forties and greatly values the children and her job. However she is not very harsh on discipline and only has one rule for the trip; 'That is the only rule we have for today, think of yourself but think of others as well.' The other teacher on the trip is Mr Briggs, whose teaching style is the complete opposite to that of Mrs Kay; 'Come on, sit down, move!' (which is what he says when he gets on the bus). Unlike Mrs Kay the children do not like or respect Mr Briggs and due to this, he doesn't understand the difficulties the children face, or the hard lives that they lead. Mrs Kay however does understand this and she really cares for the children. But because of this she has a much more relaxed view on discipline. She lets them have so much freedom because she wants them to enjoy themselves but also because she knows that nobody wants them educating. For example on page 57 where Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs are having an argument at the castle. Mrs Kay trusts the