L'éducation de Rita
Willy Russell1980200

Educating Rita is about Susan, a married woman in her twenties working as a hairdresser who signs up for a course at the Open University because she is eager to learn and discover what the world of knowledge and erudition has to offer. She is constrained by her working class, somewhat un-aspirational upbringing and feels that in order to discover herself she must becomed cultured. Susan has changed her name to Rita because Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown is her favourite book. Her husband, Denny, urges her to have a baby and strongly opposes her decision to go to university - he seems to feel that she is betraying him and rising above the lives they were born into. When the play opens Rita meets her tutor for the first time. Dr Frank Bryant is an unsuccessful middle-aged academic with a drinking problem who has no experience in teaching working-class students but who has agreed to tutor OU students because he needs the money.

Titre original : Educating Rita (1980200)