"A new Student Edition of Willy Russell's enduring 1983 play offering accessible and vivid insights through a C21st lens. The commentary conveys how groundbreaking the play was at the time in representing working-class lives on stage, as well as explicitly critiquing the British class system. Alongside delving into the themes, dramatic devices, context and characters of the play, students are encouraged to consider what it must have been like to be at the very first performance; draw comparisons between life then and now; and develop their own creative projects based on the story"--