Educating Rita

One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ... Another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross between Pygmailion and Lucky Jim. A fourth, that it is simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious, a hilarious social documentary, a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday TimesEducating Rita, which portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education, pre ...