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Educating Rita

Name: Educating Rita
Author: Willy Russell

Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University tutor.

“Frank: There, you see, an example of assonance.
Rita: Oh, it means getting' the rhyme wrong.”

Willy Russell book Educating Rita

Page 6.
Educating Rita (1980)

“Rita: Have they sacked y'?
Frank: Not quite.
Rita: Well, why y' – packing your books away.
Frank: Australia. [After a pause] Some weeks ago – made rather a night of it.
Rita: Did y' bugger the bursar?
Frank: Metaphorically.”

Willy Russell book Educating Rita

Page 50.
Educating Rita (1980)

“Rita: Will they sack you.
Frank: [lying flat on the floor] The sack? God no; that would involve making a decision. Pissed is all right. To get the sack, it'd have to be rape on a grand scale; and not just with students either. [Rita gets up and moves across to look at him] That would only amount to a slight misdemeanour. For dismissal it'd have to be nothing less than buggering the bursar.”

Willy Russell book Educating Rita

Pages 42-43.
Educating Rita (1980)

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