![]() ![]() ![]() The pair last appeared together in the 2016 New Vic production of Peter Pan In Scarlet.Įducating Rita will also tour to the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough from May 9-12. Lauryn has just appeared in Treasure Island at the New Vic and Andrew recently completed a seven month national tour playing the iconic role of Phileas Fogg in a New Vic co-production. Lauryn Redding and Andrew Pollard have both previously appeared in New Vic productions but are making their Dukes debuts. “This year is all about celebrating the emancipation of women and Rita’s story reflects that,” said Sarah. Her personal reason for choosing Educating Rita is because Sarah’s mum, much like Rita, returned to education after leaving school at 15 and both mother and daughter went to university in the same year.Įducating Rita, which runs here from April 5-14, is a witty exploration of class, privilege and the power of literature written by former hairdresser, Willy Russell, about a hairdresser who has a thirst for knowledge her husband can’t understand.Įager to escape the trivial conversations at work, Rita enrols on an Open University course where she meets her tutor, Frank, a frustrated poet, tutor and borderline alcoholic.Įducating Rita is our first co-production with the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme where it runs from April 18-May 5 as part of their season of plays marking the centenary celebrations of women’s suffrage. She said: “Educating Rita feels like the ideal show for me to direct in my first spring season at The Dukes because it’s a play about someone who changes their life through the arts and that’s what we do here.” Our Artistic Director, Sarah Punshon had both personal and professional reasons for choosing Educating Rita as her first spring production. Our Rita, aka Lauryn Redding, and our Frank, aka Andrew Pollard, arrived today and began settling into their roles at the readthrough of Willy Russell's funny and moving script. (I was so relieved it didn’t end up like a Hollywood mawkish rom-com with artificial happy ending.Rehearsals are now underway for our homegrown production of the classic comedy, Educating Rita. At the same time, it is a brilliant two-hander, Frank’s life orbit also veers dramatically since the two form a thoroughly cordial friendship. So it is a story of Rita’s transformation from a low-class commoner to a mature woman who realises her self-worth and does embrace to the life she is really pining for. ![]() Frank Bryant (Caine), a middle-age divorcé and drunkard. Rita, aka Susan White (Walters) is a 26-year-old hairdresser, married to an ordinary electrician for 6 years, she never goes to college, but finds herself as a thirsty bookworm, thus under the aim of completing her education and take the exam, she eagerly takes an open university tutorial from a college literature professor Dr. Rita, aka Susan White (Walters) is a 26-year-old hairdresser, married to an It is not a British version of MY FAIR LADY (1964, 6/10), EDUCATING RITA goes a bit higher than that, it is about how literature can improve one’s listless life and transfigure one’s entire bearing from within. It is not a British version of MY FAIR LADY (1964, 6/10), EDUCATING RITA goes a bit higher than that, it is about how literature can improve one’s listless life and transfigure one’s entire bearing from within. ![]()
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