Educating Rita (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Willy Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413767906 ISBN 13: 9780413767905

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2009

Synopsis

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. Note:Book is available in two different covers.

About this title

Review:

'Russell plays don't date, any more than Jane Austin 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

'Willy Russell is a dramatistof exceptional warmth and humanity.' --Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10

'Russell, too easily dismissed as a slavish populist, her seems a cherishably perceptive observer of the vagaries of social class and sexual politics.' --Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10

Synopsis:

Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger foreducation, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny andpassionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale witha quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday TimesEducating Rita was premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in June1980. Voted Best Comedy of 1980, it was subsequently made into a highlysuccessful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0413767906
• ISBN 13: 9780413767905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82