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Educating Rita
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Description
Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday Times
Educating Rita premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in June 1980. Voted Best Comedy of 1980, it was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.
Product details

Published | 13 Feb 2014 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 96 |
ISBN | 9781472518705 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Series | Modern Classics |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Russell plays don't date, any more than Jane Austen novels - Rita is a universal figure: any of us in a time of transition, increasingly uncomfortable in our old world but, as yet, unproven in the new.
Libby Purves, The Times, 28.07.10
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Willy Russell is a dramatist of exceptional warmth and humanity.
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10
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Russell, too easily dismissed as a slavish populist, here seems a cherishably perceptive observer of the vagaries of social class and sexual politics.
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10