Billy Liar - Interactions between characters and the build up of tension.

... Billy Liar Coursework Interactions between characters and the build up of tension. How does Billy contrast from the other characters in the Play Billy Liar, and how do the other characters react to him? Billy Lair, originally a play by Keith Waterhouse published in 1960, was later adapted as a film and play script with the aid of Willis Hall; an experienced play write. Billy Liar focuses, not surprisingly, on Billy Fisher; a well educated highly imaginative 19 year old living in the 1950s who simply cannot stop himself from lying. His lies to him are his fantasies and lives them out in graphic detail, a device that is difficult to recreate on stage with no narrator or ability to make each fantasy a reality as in the film or with the use of a passive voice in the novel. The Fishers who would have been described at the time as "new money"

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