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STUDIO SCRIPTS
Series Editor: DAVID SELF
This is a new series of contemporary playscripts, specially selected and edited for groups of young students. The plays will be drawn from television, radio, film and the stage; some will be grouped by theme, others by genre, and together they will make a series of immense variety and immediate interest.
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WILLY RUSSELL
The Boy with the Transistor Radio
CHARLIE STAFFORD Good Prospects
YOLANDA CASEY Strike
JOHNNIE MORTIMER & BRIAN COOKE George and Mildred
DOUGLAS WATKINSON Emmerdale Farm
introduction
This collection of five television scripts was originally compiled to form a unit of programmes in Thames Television's series, The English Programme.
Though quite varied, the plays are all on the same theme, and it is hoped that they will be useful in any thematic study of 'work'. It is also hoped that they will provide material for drama and play-reading lessons, and that they will encourage a systematic and critical study of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

STUDIO SCRIPTS
Series Editor: DAVID SELF
This is a new series of contemporary playscripts, specially selected and edited for groups of young students. The plays will be drawn from television, radio, film and the stage; some will be grouped by theme, others by genre, and together they will make a series of immense variety and immediate interest.
WORKING
WILLY RUSSELL
The Boy with the Transistor Radio
CHARLIE STAFFORD Good Prospects
YOLANDA CASEY Strike
JOHNNIE MORTIMER & BRIAN COOKE George and Mildred
DOUGLAS WATKINSON Emmerdale Farm
introduction
This collection of five television scripts was originally compiled to form a unit of programmes in Thames Television's series, The English Programme.
Though quite varied, the plays are all on the same theme, and it is hoped that they will be useful in any thematic study of 'work'. It is also hoped that they will provide material for drama and play-reading lessons, and that they will encourage a systematic and critical study of television drama.
To start with there are three examples of the single television play. These specially commissioned plays -one being the winner of a play writing competition run by Thames Television in 1978 - concern themselves with current controversies and issues in the world of work. Of the other two plays one is a television situation comedy and the other an episode from a long running serial. These have been included to emphasize that popular programmes such as these convey ideas and feelings to large audiences, just as much as does the serious 'one-off play.
The Boy with the Transistor Radio
In this play, Willy Russell shows just how adept he is at writing about people who lose out, despite their good intentions, and especially those trapped in the inner- Vissza