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'Laundry Girls' by Bill Owen - drama coursework review.  

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Elizabeth Hughes 10R Drama Coursework - Acting Option The play I have been studying over the last few months is called 'Laundry Girls' by Bill Owen. It is based on four Victorian working class girls and it is all about them talking about their lives. We hear about issues considered unacceptable at this time. The play was written in 1973 and set in 1899. The time it is set in is very important to the story of the play. One of the girls, Alice, gets involved with a man and we find out what people would have thought of Alice if they were to find out about it. The story then unfolds that Alice's friend Beattie had history with this 'fella' and wound up pregnant. In the Victorian times it was heavily frowned upon to have a child out of wedlock. There are all different types of characters in 'Laundry Girls' in...

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