A Comparison between Billy Liar and Shirley Valentine
I have just been studying Billy Liar and performing it as part of my
mock scripted drama GCSE, and have been asked to compare this theatre
script to the film script of Shirley Valentine. I have already given
the first difference between these two scripts; one is a theatre
script and the other is designed specifically for the big screen.
Billy Liar was originally a novel written by Keith Waterhouse, who
with the help of Willis Hall made it into a theatre script in the
1960's. Billy is an imaginative youth who is fighting to get out of
his complacent, cliché-ridden background. He was born and brought up
in a town in Yorkshire and lives with his father, Geoffrey, mother,
Alice, and grandmother, Florence. Billy has three girlfriends, Rita,
Barbara and Liz, but he only shows genuine affection and feelings
towards Liz. Billy is always fantasising and making up things which
earns him the label 'liar'. At the end of the play Billy decides to
leave his home and follow Liz to London but as we find out in the last
scene he 'chickens' out and returns to the home he so desperately
wants to escape.
Shirley Valentine on the other hand was written as a film script, by
the author Willy Russell in the 1980's, but the story is very similar
to that of Billy Liar. Shirley is a housewife and mother to two grown
up children. Her husband Joe is very insensitive and unaffectionate.
Shirley's best friend Jane invites Shi...
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