Billy Liar - Revision history

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Sources

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 : Staged by the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]] in The [[Little Theatre]], directed by [[Rosalie van der Gucht]], with a cast including [[Peter Kruger]] as Billy and [[Joyce Burch]] as Florence.
 : Presented by [[The Sandowners]], starring , among others, [[Brenda Wood]].
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 Report by [[Raeford Daniel]], ''[[The Rand Daily Mail]]'', 10 January 1985.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Adapted  as film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, in 1963[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar_(film)] and a musical in 1974.
+Adapted  as film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, in 1963[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar_(film)].
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Adapted  as film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Tom Courtenay in 1963[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar_(film)] and a musical in 1974.
+Adapted  as film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, in 1963[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar_(film)] and a musical in 1974.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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 It tells the story of the compulsive liar Billy Fisher, who has an uninspiring dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant and lives at home with his family in a sleepy Yorkshire town. His three fiancées fail to keep him adequately occupied and Billy leads a second life in his imagination. Billy's problems come when he is unable to separate fantasy from reality, and so embroils himself in a web of tangled lies, with painfully comic results. [https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Liar-Play-Waterhouse-Hall/dp/0237490269]
-First performed in 1960, featuring Albert Finney as Billy. The text published in various versions by Michael Joseph,  [[Samuel French]] and Norton
+First performed on the West End in 1960, featuring Albert Finney as Billy. The text published in various versions by Michael Joseph,  [[Samuel French]] and Norton in the same year
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 It tells the story of the compulsive liar Billy Fisher, who has an uninspiring dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant and lives at home with his family in a sleepy Yorkshire town. His three fiancées fail to keep him adequately occupied and Billy leads a second life in his imagination. Billy's problems come when he is unable to separate fantasy from reality, and so embroils himself in a web of tangled lies, with painfully comic results. [https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Liar-Play-Waterhouse-Hall/dp/0237490269]
-First performed in 1960, the text published in versions by Michael Joseph, London and by [[Samuel French]].
+First performed in 1960, featuring Albert Finney as Billy. The text published in various versions by Michael Joseph,  [[Samuel French]] and Norton
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ==The original text==
-The play is a three-act stage adaptation of Waterhouse's 1959 novel ''[[Billy Liar]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar]. First performed in 1960.
+The play is a three-act stage adaptation of Waterhouse's 1959 novel ''[[Billy Liar]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar].
-It tells the story of the compulsive liar Billy, who has an uninspiring dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant and lives at home with his family in a sleepy Yorkshire town. His three fiancées fail to keep him adequately occupied and Billy leads a second life in his imagination. Billy's problems come when he is unable to separate fantasy from reality, and so embroils himself in a web of tangled lies, with painfully comic results. [https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Liar-Play-Waterhouse-Hall/dp/0237490269]
+It tells the story of the compulsive liar Billy Fisher, who has an uninspiring dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant and lives at home with his family in a sleepy Yorkshire town. His three fiancées fail to keep him adequately occupied and Billy leads a second life in his imagination. Billy's problems come when he is unable to separate fantasy from reality, and so embroils himself in a web of tangled lies, with painfully comic results. [https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Liar-Play-Waterhouse-Hall/dp/0237490269]
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 == Sources ==
-''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar#Play]
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar#Play
 ''[[The Amorous Prawn]]'' programme notes, 1961.

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	The play is a three-act stage adaptation of Waterhouse's 1959 novel ''[[Billy Liar]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar]. First performed in 1960.		The play is a three-act stage adaptation of Waterhouse's 1959 novel ''[[Billy Liar]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Liar]. First performed in 1960.
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		+	It tells the story of the compulsive liar Billy, who has an uninspiring dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant and lives at home with his family in a sleepy Yorkshire town. His three fiancées fail to keep him adequately occupied and Billy leads a second life in his imagination. Billy's problems come when he is unable to separate fantasy from reality, and so embroils himself in a web of tangled lies, with painfully comic results. [https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Liar-Play-Waterhouse-Hall/dp/0237490269]

	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==