Introduction
This play is set in Liverpool and its about a progress class which is taught by Mrs Kay and who is planning to take her progress class on a trip to Wales and because of all the hard they been doing in the class and it will be good experience for the pupils as well and after planning the trip she tells her class that they are going a trip to Wales the pupils in the class are overjoyed about them going on a trip to Wales. The next day the class arrives in school in the morning and waits for the bus to arrive the bus arrives everyone gets in the bus. Mrs Kay gets in the bus and when it's about to leave the school Mr Briggs is sent on the trip at the last minute by the head teacher making the trip a disaster.Mr Briggs is concerned about the trip which he has not part in organisation should be an educational experience for the pupils and it is appalled both by Mrs Kay in her handling the pupils and when they reach Wales they stop at 4 different places 1st at the shop,2nd at the zoo,3rd at the Conway castle and finally at the beach.
At the core lies contrast between Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs and there respective education philosophies.MrsKay is a relaxed and easy going person where as Mr Briggs is a very strict and a man arable person This also shows the clashes between the two characters and in which each makes it clear what they think of each other and their values. These characters are deliberately made opposite to each other to make the play interesting and it hasn't done anything to make them change.
This play was written in and 1977 by Willy Russell and his experience at shore field Comprehensive School where he taught from 1973-4 .in that year he accompanied the teachers of remedial department Mrs Dorothy king on trip to Conway castle and zoo in her care and in a last minute a head teacher joined in the party creating a recipe for disaster .during the course of the day head relaxed and enjoyed himself only to revert to his usual self at the end of the day in doing so, he destroyed all the positive achievements of the day out. Clearly all the vital element of Russell play was implicit in his day out. In writing the play Russell doesn't even simply tell the story of what happened. He presented a similar characters and a situation familiar to his audience.
This play is set in Liverpool and its about a progress class which is taught by Mrs Kay and who is planning to take her progress class on a trip to Wales and because of all the hard they been doing in the class and it will be good experience for the pupils as well and after planning the trip she tells her class that they are going a trip to Wales the pupils in the class are overjoyed about them going on a trip to Wales. The next day the class arrives in school in the morning and waits for the bus to arrive the bus arrives everyone gets in the bus. Mrs Kay gets in the bus and when it's about to leave the school Mr Briggs is sent on the trip at the last minute by the head teacher making the trip a disaster.Mr Briggs is concerned about the trip which he has not part in organisation should be an educational experience for the pupils and it is appalled both by Mrs Kay in her handling the pupils and when they reach Wales they stop at 4 different places 1st at the shop,2nd at the zoo,3rd at the Conway castle and finally at the beach.
At the core lies contrast between Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs and there respective education philosophies.MrsKay is a relaxed and easy going person where as Mr Briggs is a very strict and a man arable person This also shows the clashes between the two characters and in which each makes it clear what they think of each other and their values. These characters are deliberately made opposite to each other to make the play interesting and it hasn't done anything to make them change.
This play was written in and 1977 by Willy Russell and his experience at shore field Comprehensive School where he taught from 1973-4 .in that year he accompanied the teachers of remedial department Mrs Dorothy king on trip to Conway castle and zoo in her care and in a last minute a head teacher joined in the party creating a recipe for disaster .during the course of the day head relaxed and enjoyed himself only to revert to his usual self at the end of the day in doing so, he destroyed all the positive achievements of the day out. Clearly all the vital element of Russell play was implicit in his day out. In writing the play Russell doesn't even simply tell the story of what happened. He presented a similar characters and a situation familiar to his audience.
