Stags and Hens Stags and Hens Stags and Hens is a play written by Willy Russell. Like most of Willy Russell's work, the play discusses working class society in England in the 1970s. It makes comments about the working class' intellect, life, party habits and the exclusion of the different. It was originally written in 1978 for television and drama students of the then-Manchester Polytechnic, as an in-house television production. It was first published as a script in 1986 in a collection with Educating Rita and Blood Brothers. Russell adapted it for performance in 2008 as 'Stags and Hens - The Remix' at
Educating the East End inspirational". "The Daily Telegraph" also gave the show a good review rating it 4 out of 5 stars and saying "it was charming and found the power of stories". Educating the East End Educating the East End is the third series of the British documentary television programme "Educating" broadcast on Channel 4. The eight-episode first series was first broadcast from 4 September 2014. Its format is based on the BAFTA Award-winning 2011 series "Educating Essex" and the National Television Award-winning 2013 series, "Educating Yorkshire". It follows the everyday lives of the staff and students of Frederick Bremer School in East