The major themes in our day out are the lack of education, opportunity and deprivation the inner city; discuss how Willy Russell makes the audience aware of these situations.

... The major themes in our day out are the lack of education, opportunity and deprivation the inner city; discuss how Willy Russell makes the audience aware of these situations. The popular play and TV series our day out, written by Willy Russell was set in Liverpool in the 1970 's. At this time Britain was in the middle of an economic recession and huge job losses were a result of this. Because of the high unemployment levels, social deprivation was at a high, with many families being unable to afford proper food or clothing for their children for example. Many of the men who lived in Liverpool in the early 1970's would of worked either at the docks or in the factories, which were generally the only jobs the men could get, the few business people of the city also lost their jobs when Britain hit the recession so the unemployment

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