Written by one of our greatest ever playwrights Willy Russell and starring one of our best loved actors Stephen Tompkinson as Frank and introducing Jessica Johnson as Rita. This hilarious and heart-warming comedy won the Olivier award when it was produced in London's West End by the RSC and was adapted into the multi award winning film which starred Julie Walters and Michael Caine. Her tutor Frank is a frustrated poet, brilliant academic and dedicated drinker, who's less than enthusiastic about taking Rita on, but the two soon realise how much they have to teach each other. When married hairdresser Rita enrols on a university course to expand her horizons, little does she realise where the journey will take her. And that’s why I’m staying.Following the amazing success at the Minack Open Air Theatre, Cornwall, which was widely reported worldwide, Olivier and Tony Award-winning producer David Pugh is delighted to be bringing Willy Russell’s critically acclaimed comedy to MAST Mayflower Studios. I said, ‘Why are y’ cryin’, Mother?’ She said, ‘Because- because we could sing better songs than those.’ Ten minutes later Denny had her laughing and singing again, pretending she hadn’t said it. So we did, an’ on the way home I asked her why. Everyone just said she was pissed an’ we should get her home. But when I looked round me mother had stopped singin’, an’ she was cryin’, but no one could get it out of her why she was cryin’. Well I did join in with the singin’, I didn’t ask any questions, I just went along with it. (Angrily) You think I can, don’t you? Just because you pass a pub doorway an’ hear the singin’ you think we’re all O.K., that we’re all survivin’, with the spirit intact. Educating Rita - William Russell November 2019 2,244.
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An’ I stood in that pub an’ thought, just what the frig am I trying to do? Why don’t I just pack it in an’ stay with them, an’ join in the singin’? Download & View Educating Rita - William Russell as PDF for free. I went into the pub an’ they were singin’, all of them singin’ some song they’d learnt from the juke- box. Rita looks to her mum, sitting amongst the laughing faces, to see tears falling down her cheeks. Rita and her mum, sitting in the pub (the usual activity for the extended group of friends and family) and a song starts up. I went back to the pub where Denny was, an’ me mother, an’ our Sandra, an’ her mates. Rita’s Mum, ‘Educating Rita’ by Willy Russell This has always been a moment in the play which brings me to tears. An’ I can’t talk to the likes of them on Saturday, or them out there, because I can’t learn the language. Enter Rita, a forthright 26 year-old hairdresser who is eager to learn. I can’t talk to the people I live with anymore. Details Summary Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books.
I’m all right with you, here in this room but when I saw those people you were with I couldn’t come in. Well, she can’t be like that really but bring her in because she’s good for a laugh! Me? What’s me? Some stupid woman who gives us all a laugh because she thinks she can learn, because she thinks one day she’ll be like the rest of them, talking seriously, confidently, with knowledge, livin’ a civilised life. I didn’t want to come to your house just to play the court jester.(.)īut I don’t want to be myself. The sparky and touching tale of a working-class student and her alcohol-fuelled tutor. I wanna talk seriously with the rest of you, I don’t wanna spend the night takin’ the piss, comin’ on with the funnies because that’s the only way I can get into the conversation. (angrily) But I don’t wanna be charming and delightful: funny.
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