The major themes in ‘Our Day Out’ are the lack of Education, Opportunity and Deprivation in the inner city, show how Willy Russell makes the Audience aware of these ideas.

... The major themes in 'Our Day Out' are the lack of Education, Opportunity and Deprivation in the inner city, show how Willy Russell makes the Audience aware of these ideas. 'Our Day Out' is all about a day in 1970, in the lives of poor Liverpudlian kids. In Liverpool the back streets were covered in kids doing nothing and also adults as the Docks were closing down which led to high unemployment. Also the factories, where the unemployed would go closed down as well, so at the time in the play the amount of people unemployed and on benefit was high and the benefit wouldn't be able to support all of them. The kids are in a progress class which means that they don't really get taught a lot. They aren't clever; they are rejects! In the play we learn about the language of the characters, what they say, do, and what

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