Act One. Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing. On the Face of It. Mr. Bruin Who One Drove the Bus. Our Day Out

Alan Bleasdale, Susan Hill, Don Haworth,

ISBN 10: 0091364310 / ISBN 13: 9780091364311

Published by Hutchinson, London England, 1987

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Paperback. Love is a Many Splendoured Thing. One the Face of It. Mr. Bruin Who One Drove the Bus. Our Day Out. Number 4 written in pen to inside cover. Old College stamp to inside cover. Slight crease to corner front cover. Contents: Introduction. Notes on Presentation. Acknowledgements. Love is a Many Splendoured Thing (Alan Bleasdale). On the Face of It (Susan Hill). Mr. Bruin Who Once Drove the Bus (Don Haworth). Our Day Out (Willy Russell). Follow-Up Activities. 144 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Act One. Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing. On the Face of It. Mr. Bruin Who One Drove the Bus. Our Day Out
• Publisher: Hutchinson, London England
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091364310
• ISBN 13: 9780091364311
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature,classics Poetry and Plays

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Synopsis

The first play, Love is a Many Splendoured Thing by Alan Bleasdale, was commissioned by BBC School Radio. It takes its title from a popular song, and looks at the ways in which they have to work in a pair like two reporters, to find out what 'young love' means to a number of people. This is essentially a play about the relationships between two people. On the Face of It by Susan Hill, is also about the relationships between two people. It is about the relationship between a fourteen year old boy, Derry, who has been badly disfigured in an accident, and an old man called Mr Lamb. The play discusses isolation, and suggests that such a condition is often self-imposed. The central character in Mr Bruin Who Once Drove the Bus is also something of a misfit, but Don Haworth's treatment of the theme is light-hearted. That is not to say his play is without its serious moments, and even a touch of near-tragic pathos. Our Day Out by Willy Russell chronicles an inner-city Liverpool school's day trip to Wales. Although this is in essence an amusing play, it also poses several serious questions about authority, discipline and freedom in school. Follow-up activities are included to encourage further thought.