Directed by Lee Gerchow

Performances: 8.00pm 2nd October – 18th October 2008 (Wed - Sat nights)
Public Nights: October 10, 11, 17, 18
Complimentary wine and cheese from 7.15pm on Friday 10th October.

Featuring
Jim Orr as Frank & Majella Gee as Rita

Educating Rita is set in a room of a university in the north of England. Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to seek refuge in the bottles of whiskey he hides on his bookshelves. Rita is a forthright, twenty-something hairdresser who is hungry to find some meaning to life and ‘know everything’. With Frank as her tutor Rita embarks on an Open University course and her education process begins. The effects are both amusing and serious as her fresh, intuitive approach becomes clouded and stifled as she grapples with the problem of a formal education geared to passing exams.