Educating Rita , Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool
Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool: What's not to like about Willie Russell's Rita? She's only a Liverpudlian hairdresser but she's got a lust for living and a love of learning. She's teacher's pet on her Open University English Lit course, until she gets ideas of her own. And ever since she was first incarnated in 1980 by Julie Walters, then reincarnated on film, who knows how many people hav…