Directing a Production of Educating Rita

Directing a Production of Educating Rita

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.

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 find out so he hides

his drinks behind books in the bookcases and sometimes forgets where

he puts them. When Rita gets her cigarettes out she offers Frank one,