Educating Rita : England Versus Australia 2005 (New ed)

"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. 'Like Roots and Pygmalion a touching play about the melancholic ways education often pulls people apart instead of bringing them together' - "Guardian". 'Willy Russell has taken a look at two segments of English society and engineered a collision that is as full of regret as it is of promise' - "The Times."