Educating Rita

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Event Educating Rita
Venue Newcastle Repertory Theatre, Lambton, NSW
First Date 15 January 2010
Opening Date 15 January 2010
Last Date 30 January 2010
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description Rita is 26 and has been a hairdresser since leaving school in her teens. She's married to a man who insists on controlling her life. He's against her trying to improve her education and do more with her life.
Frank, by contrast, is well-educated and a university lecturer but has coasted along. He showed talent as a poet early in life but now that he's in his 50s he's lost confidence in his abilities and keeps a supply of whiskey bottles hidden behind the books in his university room.
When he's offered the chance to earn extra money by tutoring a student in an open university course, he come
Description Source Press Release
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Anika Means Actor
Howard Rawlinson Actor
Michael Fiddian Director
Willy Russell Playwright
Resources
Works
Text Nationality England
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper Longworth, K 2010, "Real women, real roles", Newcastle Herald January 7, p.30.
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 83016