Educating Rita at North Coast Repertory Theatre

Main Stage: - Willy Russell; dir: Rosina Reynolds.

Authors

• Willy Russell

Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to seek refuge in bottles of whiskey he hides on his book shelves.
Rita is a forthright hairdresser who is hungry to “know everything”. With Frank as her Tutor, Rita embarks on an Open University course and her education process begins.
The effects are both amusing and serious as her fresh, intuitive approach becomes clouded and stifled as she grapples with the problem of a formal education geared to the passing of exams.