A Comparison between Billy Liar and Shirley Valentine Essay -- Drama

A compare amid billystick Liar and Shirley ValentineI have just been study Billy Liar and performing it as part of mymock helping hand drama GCSE, and have been asked to compare this sign of the zodiacscript to the film script of Shirley Valentine. I have already giventhe first difference between these two scripts one is a theatrescript and the other is designed specifically for the big screen.Billy Liar was originally a sweet written by Keith Waterhouse, whowith the help of Willis Hall made it into a theatre script in the1960s. Billy is an imaginative youth who is fighting to belong out ofhis complacent, clich-ridden background. He was born and brought upin a townsfolk 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 real(a) affection and feelingstowards Liz. Billy is always fantasising and making up things whichearns him the label liar. At the end of the play Bi lly decides toleave his home and follow Liz to capital of the United Kingdom but as we find out in the last motion picture he chickens out and returns to the home he so desperatelywants to escape.Shirley Valentine on the other hand was written as a film script, bythe author Willy Russell in the 1980s, but the story is very similarto that of Billy Liar. Shirley is a housewife and mother to two grownup children. Her maintain Joe is very insensitive and unaffectionate.Shirleys best friend Jane invites Shi...