Willy Russell

Educating Rita (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472518705
• Artikelnr.: 40346340

Autorenporträt

One of the most-produced writers of his time, Willy Russell (b. Whiston, Liverpool, 23 Aug. 1947) is a playwright and songwriter. He has written a large number of highly successful plays and musicals for stage and TV including John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert (1974), Breezeblock Park (1975), One for the Road (1976),Our Day Out (television 1977; stage musical version 1983), Stags and Hens (1978; filmed as Dancin' thru the Dark, 1990), Educating Rita (1979), Blood Brothers(1981; musical version 1983), and Shirley Valentine (1986). His novel, The Wrong Boy, was published to great acclaim in 2000.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology Context: Liverpool in 1980s Willy Russell and the Everyman
Themes: Being trapped and breaking free Class and identity Popular culture
v high art Education and knowledge Dramatic Devices: Language and voice
Structure Setting Production History: Casting Rita Film Critical Reception
Academic Debate Comparative Literature Further Study EDUCATING RITA Notes
References

Rezensionen

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