How Willy Russell dramatises the relationship between Frank and Rita.

... Willy Russell's Educating Rita Drama Essay By Omar Aly Henry Cort Community School GCSE Course work 2003-2004 How Willy Russell dramatises the relationship between Frank and Rita The play educating Rita was written by Willy Russell in 1979. The play is set in the 1980s in a Victorian university in the north of England, where Willy Russell was born. The play discusses the issue of poor backgrounds not continuing education and going directly into employment. "A room on the first floor of a Victorian built university in the north of England" act1 scene1 The Play supports the government's attitude in making a higher percentage of the working class population to go to a university or the newly introduced concept of the Open University. Due to the fact that the play only has one setting, the unity of place greatly affects our understanding of the play. This unity of place enables the audience to experience the events outside the university through the

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