Educating Rita
By: Willy Russell
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Adult education; Drama
Description: Following its 1980 London première and subsequent highly successful film version this revised version of 'Educating Rita' was first staged at the Liverpool Playhouse in 2002. Terribly funny and terribly sad, the play is both a comic masterwork and a poignant examination of education, class and disillusionment, a play for two actors about a working-class woman's hunger for education, knowledge and culture, and her friendship with a weary, alcoholic, failed poet-cum-lecturer.