Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse

Billy Liar

Synopsis

A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams.

He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker's clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many different situations that truth and fiction become hopelessly intermingled.

His family is unable to understand or control him, though they realize that he is a good for nothing.

The cast is completed by the three girls to whom he is simultaneously engaged.

When he is given the chance to start a new life, he turns it down, preferring his dreams to reality.

Performance

Cast

A medium cast size of 8 total roles, 5 female and 3 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Samuel French
Year Published
1982
ISBN 10
0573111421
ISBN 13
9780573111426
Binding
Paperback
Edition
New edition
Print Length
114 pages
Language
English
Print
Billy Liar is a British play written by and published by Samuel French in 1982. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780573111426 and an ISBN-10 of 0573111421.
Digital
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