"The major themes in Our Day Out are the lack of education, lack of opportunity and deprivation in inner city Liverpool - Show how Willy Russell makes the audience aware of these ideas".

... January 2003 Page 1 Our Day Out "The major themes in Our Day Out are the lack of education, lack of opportunity and deprivation in inner city Liverpool. Show how Willy Russell makes the audience aware of these ideas" It's the mid 1970's, Britain is in economic recession, working practices are changing, many businesses are closing and numerous big employers are forced to close including Liverpool's main industry, the port. Against this background of huge unemployment, Willy Russell chronicles a school outing to Conwy Castle with the school progress class. The class, who have trouble reading and writing, is led by easy going and motherly Mrs. Kay who also cares and understands for the students in her charge. Realising they were rejects from the day they were born she knows they were born for the failing factories and realises they cannot be educated. On this outing it his her main priority, that even if

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