Our day out - With whom does Willy Russell intend the audience to sympathize and identify? Give reasons and evidence from the play in your answer.

... OUR DAY OUT With whom does Willy Russell intend the audience to sympathize and identify? Give reasons and evidence from the play in your answer. Our Day Out was originally written as a television play, which was set in Liverpool. Willy Russell wrote it in 1977. He was born in 1947 inWhiston, but most of his childhood was spent in Knowsley just outside Liverpool. He has written a string of popular award winning plays and musicals. One of his most famous was Educating Rita, which was successfully adapted into a film and nominated for an Oscar. Other of his well-known works includes Shirley Valentine and Blood Brothers. Most of Russell's plays and characters are based on their situations, which are drawn from real life experiences, although the stories are generally humorous there is usually a hidden agenda as the characters tend to crave freedom from a deprived background. A good example of this

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