Referring to two scenes in the play (Act 1, scene 1 and Act 2, scene 5) show how you would direct a production of

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Referring to two scenes in the play (Act 1, scene 1 and Act 2, scene 5) show how you would direct a production of “Educating Rita” to reflect he changes in the characters and their attitudes towards each other.

Rita acts very differently in each of the two scenes, in Act 1, scene. She is very un-confident and doesn’t know what she is talking about even though she thinks she does. In Act 2, scene 5 Rita is much more confident and can talk about literature in great detail and with knowledge.

The play is set in the same room throughout the whole production but the atmosphere changes dramatically throughout. In every scene there is a different atmosphere even though the set and the characters don’t change.

At the beginning of Act 1 scene 1 Rita is very nervous but she still says what she is thinking. As she enters the room she tries to open the door but the handle doesn’t work properly so Rita starts complaining to Frank and telling him to buy a new handle and she hasn’t even mat him yet, she says “I’m coming in aren’t I? It’s that stupid bleedin’ handle on the door, you wanna get it fixed”. This shows us what Rita is like and how she talks to people, she doesn’t even introduce herself when she does come in but starts wandering around the room and talking about a nude painting while smoking. She does this because she is very nervous and anxious.

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Rita meets Frank and after a few minutes she is telling him how erotic the picture is, Frank feels very awkward because Rita says it is pornography and says, “There’s no doubt about it. Look at those tits”. She doesn’t understand the picture yet because she is new to this type of education. Rita swears a lot and she smokes quite often, this shows us per personality and he background. She is leaving her family and friends to come into an unknown world just so that she can become educated.

Frank is an alcoholic but doesn’t want anyone to ...

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