Educating Rita (Acting Edition S.)

by WillyRussell (Author)

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  Paperback
  1981

  $17.12

  Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books. Enter Rita, a forthright 26 year-old hairdresser who is eager to learn. After weeks of cajoling, Rita slowly wins over the very hesitant Frank with her innate insight and refusal to accept no for an answer. Their relationship as teacher and student blossoms, ultimately giving Frank a new sense of self and Rita the knowledge she so craves. The play became a hit film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.49

  Literature Guidelines is a series of magazine-style books on popular texts for GCSE. They are designed to encourage pupils to become actively involved in researching the texts and in exploring their own responses. Material used includes contemporary social and political documents, letters, reviews, photographs and cartoons intended to stimulate a creative response and to promote a deeper understanding of the work. Assignments vary in type and length allowing pupils to respond according to individual interests and abilities. The material is intended to generate a variety of responses from pupils such as interviews with characters, write-ons, diaries, reviews, letters etc.

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.79

  Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? Willy Russell's play gives a hilarious - and often moving - account of a young woman's determination to change her life.

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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 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.

• New

  Hardcover
  2000

  $22.28

  Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? Willy Russell's play gives a hilarious - and often moving - account of a young woman's determination to change her life.