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Educating Rita: Laugh-out-loud Comedy at the Capitol

Educating Rita: Laugh-out-loud Comedy at the Capitol

8 September 2021 15:33 PM

What a joy to step into the grand-spanking newly refurbished Capitol, Horsham, for the first night of Willy Russell`s Educating Rita. It`s a beautifully structured play which examines the relationship between working class Rita, intent on breaking the bounds of her life, and her Open University tutor, Frank, literary academic, drinking too heavily an pondering his perceived failures as a poet.

Each short scene charts the ebb and flow of their relationship as it moves towards a resolution of the tensions in it. And each scene does so with a liberal sprinkling of laugh-out-loud-to lines delivered effortlessly by Stephen Tompkinson as Frank and Jessica Johnson as Rita.

First produced in 1980 at the Warehouse in London, the play won the Olivier award for comedy of the year and this production richly shows how. Last night`s audience loved it.

It runs until Saturday. For times and to book, click here.








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