“Our Day Out” is a political play. Willy Russell wants us to think about his characters and the world that they inhabit. What is your response to the drama, and the way it is told?

... "Our Day Out" is a political play. Willy Russell wants us to think about his characters and the world that they inhabit. What is your response to the drama, and the way it is told? Set in a Liverpool of 1977, Willy Russell's play follows a rare school outing, in a dreary, dull and dilapidated environment. The situation is choked with deprivation and injustice, in a post-industrial and lifeless period in the city, in a working-class society. The local school is on its way to Conway Castle in Wales, the kids full of enthusiasm, anticipation and expectations of a 'New World.' The children are remedial, many unable to read or write, their hopes of a successful future, long forgotten, the system condemning them to a life of mediocrity. Their behaviour is unruly, although it is perhaps understandable given their situation and upbringing. One particular child, 'Andrews,' admits to the teacher Mr

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