Educating Rita.Educating Rita Educating Rita is an award-winning stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of a university lecturer. (Columbia Pictures, 1983). In this breezy Willy Russell William Martin Russell (born 23 August 1947 in Whiston, Merseyside) is a British playwright, author, lyricist and composer. Life Russell comes from a working class background. comedy--which might be retitled "Pygmalion Goes to College"--Julie Walters is cast as a hairdresser whose dissatisfaction with her working-class life leads her to enroll in the Open University. There she encounters not Professor Henry Higgins, or even Mr. Chips, but Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), a boozy, divorced, middle-aged professor with enough self-pity to sink the Love Boat This unlikeliest of mentors somehow is raised from his stuporous stu·por n. 1. A state of reduced or suspended sensibility. 2. A state of mental numbness, as that resulting from shock; a daze. See Synonyms at lethargy. slumber by the dogged wit of his new protegee pro·té·gée n. A woman or girl whose welfare, training, or career is promoted by an influential person. [French, feminine of protégé, protégé; see protégé.] Noun 1. and manages, in spite of himself, to introduce the young Walters to a world of ideas and a sense of self she had only suspected existed. *** |
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