Willy Russell

Educating Rita

• Broschiertes Buch

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

• Modern Classics
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Specialist / Methuen Drama
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 3724
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 101g
• ISBN-13: 9780413767905
• ISBN-10: 0413767906
• Artikelnr.: 22444747

Autorenporträt

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.

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