Educating Rita review – Willy Russell’s classic still has plenty to teach us by Arifa Akbar

Curve theatre, LeicesterDirector Cara Nolan keeps the play’s original 1980s setting but its message about how expectations are dictated by class and gender is anything but datedSo much of the success of Willy Russell’s ivory-spired two-hander rests on the chemistry between its actors. The play traces a woman’s self-empowerment through education via her relationship with a world-weary Open University academic, b…

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