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 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.