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Educating Rita

Name: Educating Rita
Author: Willy Russell

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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.

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Publisher

Methuen Drama

Year

2014

ISBN

9781472518705

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Drama

Index

Literature

nervous, 

but

as

I

entered

the

glass

doors

of

Childwall 

College

I

felt

as

if

I’d

made

it

back

to

the

beginning.

I

could

start

again.

I

felt 

at

home.

Willy

Russell

x

Educating

Rita

Author’s

Note

to

the

Revised

Edition

While 

I

realise

that

the

text 

of

Educating 

Rita

is

frequently

prescribed

for

examinations

and

I

would

not

want

to

override

the

needs

of

students

and

their

examiners,

my

main

consideration

is

with

the

companies

that

act

my

plays

and

the

audiences

that

watch 

them.

And

it

is

for

this

reason

that

I

would 

like 

to

make

available

this

updated

version

of

Educating

Rita

.

I

haven’t, 

in

any

way,

radically

overhauled 

the

text

to

the

extent

of

changing 

the

play

itself.

What

I

have

done

is

to

address

those 

areas

where

there

were

very,

very

specific

references

to

the

time

in

which

the

play

was

originally

written.

While

I

have

not

tried 

to

reset

the

play

in

the

twenty-first

century,

what

I

have

done

is

cut

and

edit

and

rewrite

in

such

a

way

that

the

play

can

be

perceived

as

taking

place

in

its

own

time

(something

that

just

wasn’t

possible 

when

the

text

contained

references

to

figures

and

institutions

and

attitudes

firmly

of

the

late 

1970s/early

1980s).

Willy

Russell

March

2003