Advantages: Full of humour and pathos Disadvantages: You may need Northern humour to appreciate it
...Liverpudlian children. Our Day Out is a NEED to see/read play if you are from Liverpool or the surrounding areas. If you are not you perhaps won't really find it AS amusing... But just go and see/read it anyway and see what you think. ...
oldchem 11.06.2009 (13.06.2009)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Our Day Out - Willy Russell
Advantages: Entertaining to watch, good characters, short length, lots of music Disadvantages: lots of music, unbelievable plot, far-fetched activities
...or well written of plays, Our Day Out still manages to provide plenty of fun for the family (?). Based in a 70s Liverpool, a group of difficult school kids are taken on a rather interesting school trip. With the likes of Reilly and Digga(the class bullies) on the trip, nothing is going to be simple, and the Liverpudlians live up to their stereotypical nature and manage to nick most of the sweets from a sweet shop, and then round it all up by nicking ... ...a romance threatens to blossom between a teacher and Reilly, and the headteacher bursts in and tags along, bringing his 'happy' (ahem..) nature with him, as all headteachers do... the music is, I have to say this, poor. Although the desired effect may have been to create a reapeated theme tune, the achieved effect is annoyance in 10 verses, and trust me, it is one of the most annoying tunes I've ever had the misfortune to come across. In general ...
elchee 09.05.2001 (08.05.2001)
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