It is a play about a difficult social transition. This is a funny, witty and charming play with many laugh-out- loud moments juxtaposed with emotional poignant and heart wrenching moments. Frank’s worries and drinking problems eventually starves her of that original charm that caught his attention in the first place. Rita’s feels her pursuit of an education alienates her from her social class. But Frank is injected with a new zest for life when meeting Rita and her unconventional ideas. In doing so she meets her professor Frank, a failed poet who has turned to alcohol. Feeling unready to accept the fate she embarks upon an Open University course. Rita is a hairdresser who feels that there should be more to life than having a baby. This play is set in the 1980s and deals with issues that are still relevant today. (This play is currently on Restricted Licence due to a National Tour) Tickets for the performance are currently limited to 50 per performance due to Covid 19 restrictions so they will be allocated on a first come first served basis from The Arts Centre Matchbox Theatre is pleased to announce that they have secured a Licence for three performances of Educating Rita by Willy Russell. Matchbox Theatre present Educating Rita by Willy Russell Celebrate Different Collective – Youth Arts Ambassadors.Which shared Educating Rita's understated feminism. Russell's still more celebrated later collaboration, Shirley Valentine (1989), Won the film a wide audience on its release, paving the way for Gilbert and The warmth of her performance and Russell's positive message of self-discovery Tries on an assortment of over-the-top outfits (and accompanying identities) forįrank's dinner party reminds us of Walters' long partnership with Victoria Wood. Showcases her considerable skills as a comedienne. Walters cuts a strong and sympathetic figure as Rita, and the film The scene is givenĪ more upbeat light counterpoint when Rita burns one of her own essays inįrank's study, insisting she must do better. This poignant theme recurs when DennyĬruelly tosses Rita's copy of Chekhov's plays onto a bonfire. Scenes in the university with comic effect, while a melancholic synth themeĪccompanies the dinner party episode. A florid piece of classical music punctuates her Rita's uncomfortable relationship with her surroundings is further underlined Looking in through the glass doors, feels similarly isolated and Subsequently, she retreats to her local pub but, In the first, Rita arrives for aĭinner party at Frank's house but flees after peeking at the other guests Highlighted in a pair of mirrored scenes. Working-class background and the world of academia. However, Rita considers herself a 'half-caste', adrift from both her Spaces of the university campus which, she says, give her "room to breathe". Husband symbolically takes a hammer to one of the walls) with the leafy, open Outfits Michael Caine, who bulked out and grew unkempt curls to play Frank, isĭressed throughout in drab, faded shades.ĭirector Lewis Gilbert also contrasts Rita's claustrophobic home (where her Peroxide-blonde hairdo with pink highlights and wears an array of bright Young hairdresser with that of her middle-aged tutor. This isĪ comedy of contrasts, immediately juxtaposing the appearance of the sparky Willy Russell's script, from his own stage play (also starring Julie Walters),Ĭombines hard-edged social realism with a lightly-worn, spirited humour. Of the wit and grit of the British New Wave dramas of two decades earlier. Though its most obvious debt is to Shaw's Pygmalion, Educating Rita has much Enrolling on an Open University literature course, she is taken under the reluctant wing of a semi-alcoholic English professor, Frank. Rita is a young working-class woman with a burning desire forĮducation.
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