\'One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ...
Commentary and notes by Katie Beswick, University of the Arts London..
It was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters and won the 1983 BAFTA award for Best Film.
It premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in 1980 and won the SWET award for Best Comedy of the Year.
Educating Rita portrays a working-class Liverpool woman\'s hunger for education.
A fourth, that it 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 This new student edition includes an introduction covering the play\'s context; chronology; dramatic devices; critical reception; production history; and key themes such as class and identity, popular culture and education.
A third, that it is a cross between Pygmailion and Lucky Jim.
Another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. \'One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ..
