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‘Educating Rita’ is a play by Willy Russell. It follows two people and their ever changing relationship. It takes place in just one room at a redbrick university in “the North of England”. Frank is an English lecturer at the university. He takes on an Open University teaching course “to pay for the drink”. Rita is a ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... This helps the audience to realise that she has a lot to learn and emphasises the ‘problems’ Rita is trying to overcome. In one of the most revealing passages in the play she says - “There was always somethin’ …tellin’ me I might have got it all wrong. But I’d just play another record or buy another dress an’ stop worryin’. …’Til … y’ have to decide whether it’s gonna be another change of dress or a change in yourself.” This tells us exactly why she decides to come on the course. She realises tha ....