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    Ready Reference Treatise: Educating Rita
    Ready Reference Treatise: Educating Rita
    Ready Reference Treatise: Educating Rita
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    Ready Reference Treatise: Educating Rita

    By Raja Sharma

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    “Educating Rita” by British playwright Willy Russell first premiered at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980.

    It is a stage comedy. The play is for two actors. The entire play is set in the office of an Open University lecturer.

    It is regarded as Willy Russell’s one of the most regarded works. It is also considered to be one of the most popular works for the drama theatre in the late 20th century.

    The play is based on the playwright’s own experiences. He had grown up in a working class environment in Liverpool. He was not able to attend college until his twenties.

    Ready Reference Treatise: Educating Rita
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Act One
    Act Two
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateMay 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310109102
    Ready Reference Treatise: Educating Rita
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise: Educating Rita

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      Ready Reference Treatise: Educating Rita

      Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Educating Rita by British playwright Willy Russell first premiered at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980.

      It is a stage comedy. The play is for two actors. The entire play is set in the office of an Open University lecturer.

      It is regarded as Willy Russell’s one of the most regarded works. It is also considered to be one of the most popular works for the drama theatre in the late 20th century.

      The play is based on the playwright’s own experiences. He had grown up in a working class environment in Liverpool. He was not able to attend college until his twenties.

      The play is highly influenced by Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion in which an older professor tutors and shapes an uncouth flower girl into a lady.

      Russell had his own experiences with education. He once said that the writing of the play was highly influenced by his own experiences.

      During an interview, Russell stated that he had not set out to write an autobiographical play, but he admitted that the parallels between Rita and him seemed glaring now.

      Russell said that he was a ladies’ hairdresser and he had left school with one O-level and gone back to get the education which he had been deprived of. He said that while writing Educating Rita he had realised the power of political theatre with a small p.

      When the play was first performed on 10th of June, 1980, at the Royal Shakespeare Company Warehouse in London, it was greatly admired by both the audiences and the contemporary critics. From there the play was transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End.

      In the year 1983, the play was adapted into an equally successful film. The screenplay of the film was adapted by Russell himself.

      The film was nominated for three Academy Awards. Most of the reviews were highly positive.

      In 2009, Russell himself adapted ‘Educating Rita’ for radio. The play was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Boxing Day.

      The play has been revised thrice: 2010, 2012, and 2015. The last performance of the play was held in the Liverpool Playhouse.

      The play is often discussed among scholars in academic circles and educational institutions. Several schools and colleges have included the play in their reading lists. It is also performed by school and college theatre groups in several countries.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      At the beginning of the play, we are introduced to the title character ‘Rita.’ She is a working-class woman, in her twenties. She is from Liverpool.

      As the play begins, she arrives at the office of Frank. He happens to be a middle-aged professor at a university. Rita has come there to be tutored because she has decided to go back to school.

      When Rita enters the office, Frank is in conversation with Julia on phone. Julia is his younger live-in girlfriend. He tells

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