L’Éducation de Rita

A classic of English theatre, Educating Rita.

She is a bubbly, curious hairdresser in Liverpool who dreams of becoming an educated woman. He is a disillusioned literature lecturer drowning in his books and his whisky. Rita bursts into Frank’s office like a whirlwind. He tries to get rid of her; she hangs on. To change her life, she puts her hopes in education; he no longer believes in it. In this comic collision, it is Rita who takes charge of her own transformation.

A delightfully reversed Pygmalion that brilliantly evokes the power of culture.

Written by Willy Russell, French translation by Catherine Marcangeli (performed in French).