Educating Rita

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Educating Rita

In Act 1 Scene 1 at the very beginning the audience are introduced to Frank a open university tutor who is on the phone to Eliot looking for a bottle of whisky then he puts the phone down, seconds later the phone rings again its franks girlfriend the audience knows this because he refers to her as “darling” argues with her on the phone and then puts it down, when there’s a knock at the door. The door opens with a tatty looking young women standing there Frank tells her to come in and sit down

    In this scene Frank and Rita are just getting to now each other a this moment Rita is wanting to be taught enough to turn her life around because she is not happy with her life at the moment, Frank tells her she has to work very hard to get what she wants. In Scenes 2 to 4 Rita and Frank’s relationship in these scenes develop to become very close as Rita is being educated and taught. Rita is asked to do an essay on pear gynt she takes it away and has a go at it and when she brings it back to Frank as Frank looks at it he sees that there is nothing written on the paper she says “I can’t do it I tried honest I did” she says that she can’t understand what he is going on about.

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    In scene five Rita comes into Franks study upset and down, Frank asks for her essay and she says “I haven’t got it” she replies Frank wonders were it is and Rita buts in an says “its burnt, all those Chekhov books you lent me are all burnt to, Danny found out I was on the pill again and I left me prescription out so he burnt them”. Frank asks her if she wants to abandon the course she says NO a silly fight with the husband wouldn’t stop her from her education. Frank tries to get ...

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