![]() ” the play explores fundamental notions of education including the motivations and dreams that inspire teacher and student alike.Įducating Rita has proved to be highly successful because Bildungsroman elements of self-realisation, allow it to “transcend barriers of language, class and race” and strike an empathetic chord with audiences. in the introduction of the play, Russell explains that he aimed to achieve this in a way that “engaged” an audience and “was relevant to those who considered themselves uneducated, those whose daily language is not the language of the university or the theatre. his is represented through Rita and Frank’s juxtaposition of class, background, social expectations and values. The bond they form generates the emotional impetus (force) needed to undergo fundamental (so basic as to be hard to alter, resolve, or overcome) change. Frank and Rita’s interaction as teacher and student triggers a re-evaluation of self and their relationship with their world. an educational context is used to explore the development of skills, attitudes, values and outlook that takes place in Frank and Rita. n educative relationship between teaching and learning is examined through the transition from ignorance to knowledge and enlightenment. the playwright describes the play as “a love story”, although the relationship that unfolds between Rita and Frank is also a story about “literature, language and education”. Educating Rita - Willy Russell explores notions of personal growth and self awareness through the transformation and process of change that occurs in Frank and Rita. When responding to texts, students are to demonstrate the different pathways (worlds and ways of coping) that are available. Worlds encountered are varied as well as the unique and individual ways that people cope with the pressures of moving out ‘into the world’. offers knowledge, understanding and insight as well as more arduous and difficult consequences. transitional phase, marked by new challenges, opportunities and relationships described as a ‘rite of passage’, a time of change and adaption from one world of experience into another. This witty and moving two-hander, made into a successful film with Julie Walters and Michael Caine in 1983, offers an analysis of formal education, and optimistically shows a woman succeeding in surmounting her deprived background to be able to make choices – an encouraging message that has successfully transferred to many cultures in the so-called Third World where women are demanding equal access to education.Into the World examines how various texts represent stages of growing up and maturation. in 2 acts S: Tutor's room in northern English university (Liverpool), 1970s C: 1m, 1f Rita comes to say goodbye she now knows that education is not everything, but at least she now has a choice.Ī: Willy Russell Pf: 1980, London Pb: 1981 G: Com. Finally, the university authorities send him off to Australia. Frank is alarmed to see her slipping from his influence and begins to drink more heavily. She has moved into a flat with a stylish new friend, works in a bistro, and plans a holiday with fellow students at Christmas. That autumn Rita has been to summer school, where she excelled. Rita becomes even more committed to her course. Rita's husband becomes unhappy with her new enthusiasm, and when he discovers that she is on the pill, burns her books and eventually forces her to choose between her degree and her marriage. Slowly he teaches her formal education in which judgements have to be ‘purely objective’. His first OU pupil is Rita White, a 26-year-old alert and voluble hairdresser, who has determined to improve her life by taking a degree. ![]() ![]() His wife has left him, he is now living with a younger woman, and he cheers his desolate existence with copious amounts of alcohol. in 2 acts S: Tutor's room in northern English university (Liverpool), 1970s C: 1m, 1fFrank, failed poet and unenthusiastic university lecturer in English, is earning some extra income by tutoring on an Open University (OU) course. A: Willy Russell Pf: 1980, London Pb: 1981 G: Com.
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