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.

Willy Russell's work is phenomenally popular with schools, colleges and universities The play was made into a highly successful film starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters, winner of the 1983 BAFTA Award for Best Film. 'Like Roots and Pygmalion ... a touching play about the melancholic ways education often pulls people apart instead of bringing them together' Guardian 'Willy Russell has taken a look at two segments of English society and engineered a collision that is as full of regret as it is of promise' The Times

About the Author
Willy Russell, born in Whiston near Liverpool, is one of the most popular and successful contemporary playwrights whose works are studied in schools and colleges. His plays include: One for the Road, Stags and Hens, Educating Rita, Blood Brothers and Shirley Valentine.

Reviews
'Russell plays don't date, any more than Jane Austin novels- Rita is a universal figure: any of us in a time of transition, increasingly uncomfortable in our old world but, as yet, unproven in the new.' Libby Purves, The Times, 28.07.10 'Willy Russell is a dramatistof exceptional warmth and humanity.' Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10 'Russell, too easily dismissed as a slavish populist, her seems a cherishably perceptive observer of the vagaries of social class and sexual politics.' Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10



Book Information
ISBN 9780413767905
Author Willy Russell
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 96g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 6mm