Which shared Educating Rita's understated feminism. Rita, a vibrant and bubbly twenty-six year old, uneducated, working class woman enrols at the Open University, her real name is Susan, but she changed it to Rita in honour of Rita Mae Brown, a junk novelist. Russell's still more celebrated later collaboration, Shirley Valentine (1989), The play ‘Educating Rita’ is set in Liverpool during the 1970s, with only two main characters: Rita White and Frank. Won the film a wide audience on its release, paving the way for Gilbert and The warmth of her performance and Russell's positive message of self-discovery Tries on an assortment of over-the-top outfits (and accompanying identities) forįrank's dinner party reminds us of Walters' long partnership with Victoria Wood. Showcases her considerable skills as a comedienne. Walters cuts a strong and sympathetic figure as Rita, and the film Probes the transformations that take place in the relationship between a rumpled professor and a hairdresser who. The scene is givenĪ more upbeat light counterpoint when Rita burns one of her own essays inįrank's study, insisting she must do better. This poignant theme recurs when DennyĬruelly tosses Rita's copy of Chekhov's plays onto a bonfire. Scenes in the university with comic effect, while a melancholic synth themeĪccompanies the dinner party episode. A florid piece of classical music punctuates her Rita's uncomfortable relationship with her surroundings is further underlined After weeks of cajoling, Rita slowly wins over the very hesitant Frank with her innate insight and refusal to accept no for an answer. Looking in through the glass doors, feels similarly isolated and Enter Rita, a forthright 26 year-old hairdresser who is eager to learn.
Subsequently, she retreats to her local pub but, In the first, Rita arrives for aĭinner party at Frank's house but flees after peeking at the other guests Highlighted in a pair of mirrored scenes.
These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of the play Educating Rita by Willy Russell. Working-class background and the world of academia. Educating Rita essays are academic essays for citation. However, Rita considers herself a 'half-caste', adrift from both her Spaces of the university campus which, she says, give her "room to breathe". Husband symbolically takes a hammer to one of the walls) with the leafy, open Outfits Michael Caine, who bulked out and grew unkempt curls to play Frank, isĭressed throughout in drab, faded shades.ĭirector Lewis Gilbert also contrasts Rita's claustrophobic home (where her Peroxide-blonde hairdo with pink highlights and wears an array of bright Young hairdresser with that of her middle-aged tutor. This isĪ comedy of contrasts, immediately juxtaposing the appearance of the sparky Willy Russell's script, from his own stage play (also starring Julie Walters),Ĭombines hard-edged social realism with a lightly-worn, spirited humour. Of the wit and grit of the British New Wave dramas of two decades earlier.
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