Educating Rita
by Willy Russell

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Synopsis

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.

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Publisher Methuen
Year 2001
Binding Paperback
Edition New Ed
Pages 82
Language English
ISBN-13 9780413767905
ISBN-10 0413767906

Educating Rita is a British comedy play written by Willy Russell and published by Methuen (2001).

Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle .

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