Tally Ho! Productions is presents its new production of Willy Russell’s classic comedy, Educating Rita.
Rita White, a young Liverpudlian hairdresser enrolls in an Open University course to study literature to better herself and escape from her drab and dreary working-class world. Along the way, she meets her tutor, Frank Bryant, a jaded professor who quickly becomes fascinated.
Featured in the role of Rita is Fleur du Cap and Naledi nominee, Zoë McLaughlin, last seen in ‘The Last Five Years’ as Cathy Hiatt. Playing opposite her as Professor Frank Bryant is award-winning actor Jason K. Ralph, last seen as Lord Wessex in the Fugard production of ‘Shakespeare In Love'
With dialogue radiant with the wit and charm of 1980s England, Educating Rita is an intimate, funny, and moving classic of how the world opens up when we open ourselves up to the world.