![]() ![]() Tickets are selling from R150,00 to R 250,00 through Webtickets.īook online, at any Webtickets vendor or by calling the Theatre on the bay box-office at 0. With dialogue radiant with the wit and charm of 1980s England, EDUCATING RITA is an intimate, funny, and moving classic of how the world opens up when we open ourselves up to the world.Įducating Rita will be running at Theatre on the bay from 5 July 2022 to 15 July 2022 for a limited season. Ralph, last seen as Lord Wessex in the Fugard Theatre production of ‘Shakespeare In Love‘. Playing opposite her as Professor Frank Bryant is award-winning actor Jason K. The play was adapted in 1983 to a multi-award-winning film starring Michael Caine and Julie Waters.įeatured in the titular role of Rita is Fleur du Cap and Naledi nominee, Zoë McLaughlin, last seen in ‘The Last Five Years’ as Cathy Hiatt. Along the way, she meets her tutor, Frank Bryant, a jaded professor who quickly becomes fascinated by Rita’s off-beat take on the world of academia.ĮDUCATING RITA was originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare company and opened to great acclaim in 1980. Rita White, a young Liverpudlian hairdresser enrolls in an Open University course to study literature to better herself and escape from her drab and dreary working-class world. Probes the transformations that take place in the relationship between a rumpled professor and a hairdresser who. Tally Ho! Productions is proud to present its new production of Willy Russell’s classic comedy, EDUCATING RITA. This witty and moving two-hander, made into a successful film with Julie Walters and Michael Caine in 1983, offers an analysis of formal education, and optimistically shows a woman succeeding in surmounting her deprived background to be able to make choices – an encouraging message that has successfully transferred to many cultures in the so-called Third World where women are demanding equal access to education.WILLY RUSSELL’S CLASSIC COMEDY, EDUCATING RITA IS COMING TO CAPE TOWN! in 2 acts S: Tutor's room in northern English university (Liverpool), 1970s C: 1m, 1f On the other, there is Rita, street-smart but. On one hand, there is Frank, the worldly professor, bookish and secure. Rita comes to say goodbye she now knows that education is not everything, but at least she now has a choice.Ī: Willy Russell Pf: 1980, London Pb: 1981 G: Com. Willy Russells Educating Rita is a comedy about a clash of cultures. She wondered why she won’t just quit and rejoin people like Denny and her mother, spending her time singing in pubs and getting drunk. Finally, the university authorities send him off to Australia. Continuing her story about Saturday night, Rita says that she stood in the pub and wondered what, exactly, she’s trying to do by getting an education. The play takes place in the nineteen-seventies to the nineteen-eighties and is furthermore written by English playwright, lyricist, and composer William Russell. Frank is alarmed to see her slipping from his influence and begins to drink more heavily. Educating Rita is a dramatic and comedic play about the differences in social class and education in Britain. She has moved into a flat with a stylish new friend, works in a bistro, and plans a holiday with fellow students at Christmas. That autumn Rita has been to summer school, where she excelled. Rita becomes even more committed to her course. Rita's husband becomes unhappy with her new enthusiasm, and when he discovers that she is on the pill, burns her books and eventually forces her to choose between her degree and her marriage. Slowly he teaches her formal education in which judgements have to be ‘purely objective’. His first OU pupil is Rita White, a 26-year-old alert and voluble hairdresser, who has determined to improve her life by taking a degree. ![]() His wife has left him, he is now living with a younger woman, and he cheers his desolate existence with copious amounts of alcohol. in 2 acts S: Tutor's room in northern English university (Liverpool), 1970s C: 1m, 1fFrank, failed poet and unenthusiastic university lecturer in English, is earning some extra income by tutoring on an Open University (OU) course. A: Willy Russell Pf: 1980, London Pb: 1981 G: Com. Educating Rita by Willy Russell EDUCATING RITA follows the relationship between Rita, a young working-class hairdresser from Liverpool and Dr. ![]()
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