Thursday
13th March 2003
Caine
classic goes back on stage |
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One
of Willy Russell's best loved plays is revived in Kidderminster. |
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Educating
Rita made a truly great film, with Michael Caine playing the boozy
cynical lecturer and Julie Walters the working class girl looking
for an education.
Originally the show was a stage play from the master writer Willy
Russell, who's later works include Blood Brothers and Shirley Valentine.
The nonentities
in Kidderminster are reviving the show in April, so if you've never
seen how well Rita works as a theatrical spectacle then this is your
chance
Working girl makes good
The story concerns Rita, is a working-class hairdresser married to
Denny, and she doesn't want a baby.
Rita though has different plans and she joins the Open University
with the aim of broadening her mind rather than her waistline.
It's at University that she meets the world weary Dr. Frank Bryant,
a professor of literature with a penchant for the odd drink or six.
The part was played memorably in the film by Michael Caine, with Julie
Walters playing Rita.
The play concerns their developing relationship and the changes it
brings to both of their characters.
It's a play that has everything, humour by the bucketful, quality
writing, and two great parts for the lead actors to explore.
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