Willy Russell

Educating Rita (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ... Another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross between Pygmailion and Lucky Jim. A fourth, that it 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, which portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education, premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in 1980 and won the SWET award for Best Comedy of the Year. It was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters and won the 1983 BAFTA award for Best Film.

Commentary and notes by Steve Lewis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472536440
• Artikelnr.: 39486840

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, Our Day Out 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