Educating Rita – Frinton Summer Theatre
It’s a tale as old as love itself – older man falls for younger woman’s charms, but ‘Educating Rita’ is about so much more.
Rita (Hannah Traylen) is a hairdresser, with what her working folk would call ‘ideas above her station’. She enrols on an open university course in English literature because she wants to expand her mind and see the world differently. Her tutor, Frank (Jonathan Clarkson), is a failed poet and disillusioned drunk.
The scene is therefore set for the tensions to erupt and the hearts to unfold – which they do.
Two-hander plays are notoriously difficult to pull off (and still keep the audience entertained), but the casting of this duo is stellar. Hannah is an absolute firecracker of a performer and Jonathan does a good job at dowdy, with occasional sparks of l...
