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Educating Rita - (Modern Classics) by  Willy Russell (Paperback) - 1 of 1

Educating Rita - (Modern Classics) by Willy Russell (Paperback)

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  • 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.'
  • 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.
  • 96 Pages
  • Drama, European
  • Series Name: Modern Classics

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About the Book



A single-volume re-issue of the well-known play Educating Rita. The story centres on a working-class Liverpudlian woman's hunger for education.



Book 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 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.



Review Quotes




"Russell plays don't date, any more than Jane Austen 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 dramatist of exceptional warmth and humanity." --Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10

"Russell, too easily dismissed as a slavish populist, here seems a cherishably perceptive observer of the vagaries of social class and sexual politics." --Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10




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.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.6 Inches (H) x 4.9 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)
Weight: .25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: European
Series Title: Modern Classics
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Paperback
Author: Willy Russell
Language: English
Street Date: July 23, 2009
TCIN: 1006741213
UPC: 9780413767905
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-1230
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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