John Bennett
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310737
- eISBN:
- 9781846314476
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846314476.017
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter presents an interview with playwright Willy Russell, conducted at Liverpool Hope University in May 2006. Russell wrote some of the most successful and much-performed stage plays of ...
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This chapter presents an interview with playwright Willy Russell, conducted at Liverpool Hope University in May 2006. Russell wrote some of the most successful and much-performed stage plays of recent decades, including Stags and Hens (1978), Educating Rita (1980), and Shirley Valentine (1986). The interview covers topics such as his views about being called a ‘Liverpool playwright’; the people he admires most; and the artistic significance of the bar and restaurant beneath the Everyman Theatre, the Everyman Bistro.Less
This chapter presents an interview with playwright Willy Russell, conducted at Liverpool Hope University in May 2006. Russell wrote some of the most successful and much-performed stage plays of recent decades, including Stags and Hens (1978), Educating Rita (1980), and Shirley Valentine (1986). The interview covers topics such as his views about being called a ‘Liverpool playwright’; the people he admires most; and the artistic significance of the bar and restaurant beneath the Everyman Theatre, the Everyman Bistro.
