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Willy Russell's work is phenomenally popular with schools, colleges and universitiesA top twenty selling Methuen Drama play title

About the Author

Willy Russell, born in Whiston near Liverpool, is one of the mostpopular and successful contemporary playwrights whose works are studiedin schools and colleges. His plays include: One for the Road, Stags and Hens, Educating Rita, Blood Brothers and Shirley Valentine.

Reviews

Russell plays don't date, any more than Jane Austen novels - Rita is a universal figure: any of us in a time of transition, increasingly uncomfortable in our old world but, as yet, unproven in the new. * Libby Purves, The Times, 28.07.10 *
Willy Russell is a dramatist of exceptional warmth and humanity. * Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10 *
Russell, too easily dismissed as a slavish populist, here seems a cherishably perceptive observer of the vagaries of social class and sexual politics. * Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10 *