Educating Rita |
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Author:
| Russell, Willy |
Series title: | Modern Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4725-1870-5 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2014 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $13.45 |
Book Description:
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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 TimesEducating 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.
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 TimesEducating 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.