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Educating Rita by Willy Russell (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-100413767906

ISBN-139780413767905

eBay Product ID (ePID)2575766

Product Key Features

Book TitleEducating Rita

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2009

FeaturesNew Edition

GenreDrama

AuthorWilly Russell

Book SeriesModern Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight3.5 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsEducating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is "simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.", Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is "simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending., "Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, 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, "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 "Willy Russell is a dramatist of exceptional warmth and humanity." -- Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10 "Russell, too easily dismissed as a slavish populist, here seems a cherishably perceptive observer of the vagaries of social class and sexual politics." -- Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10, Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, 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, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, 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

Dewey Decimal822.914

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisEducating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, 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 premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in June 1980. Voted Best Comedy of 1980 , it was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters., 'Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl''s hunger for education, 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 was premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in June 1980. Voted Best Comedy of 1980, it was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.', A single-volume re-issue of the well-known play Educating Rita . The story centres on a working-class Liverpudlian woman's hunger for education.