Photos: Sweeney & Kelly in Educating Rita rehearsals
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London's West End
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25 April 2012
Rehearsal photographs have been released of the the Menier Chocolate Factory and Theatre Royal Bath Productions touring version of Educating Rita starring Claire Sweeney and Matthew Kelly
Tamara Harvey has directed the two-hander which was previously seen at
the Menier in 2010 directed by Jeremy Sams and starring Laura Dos
Santos and Larry Lamb (later replaced by Tim Pigott-Smith).
That production transferred to Trafalgar Studios 1, playing in rep with Russell’s one-woman play Shirley Valentine which earned Meera Syal a 2011 Whatsonstage.com Award for Best Solo Performance.
Educating Rita centres on an under-privileged Liverpudlian
hairdresser who tries to enrich her life by going on an English Lit Open
University course and develops a special relationship with her tutor.
Originally commissioned by the RSC in 1980, it was made into film,
starring Julie Walters and Michael Caine, in 1983.
Matthew Kelly in rehearsal for Educating Rita. Photo credit: Catherine Ashmore
Willy Russell & Tamara Harvey in rehearsal for Educating Rita. Photo credit: Catherine Ashmore
Claire Sweeney in rehearsal for Educating Rita. Photo credit: Catherine Ashmore
Claire Sweeney & Matthew Kelly in rehearsal for Educating Rita. Photo credit: Catherine Ashmore
Claire Sweeney in rehearsal for Educating Rita. Photo credit: Catherine Ashmore
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