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11/16/2006: ""Educating Rita""

Touching, entertaining and incredibly funny! Stage Left presents: "Educating Rita" by Willy Russell At the Roche Harbor Pavilion from Nov 16th - Dec 10th Thursdays - Saturdays @ 7:30, Suns @ 5:30 (except Sat. Nov 18th @ 2:00 pm only) (No performance on Thanksgiving Day ) Also as part of Roche Harbor's Christmas Festivities on Dec 15th @ 7:30 Admission free. Donations welcome.

"Educating Rita" centers on the relationship between two people from opposite sides of a cultural and academic divide. University lecturer Frank needs to earn some extra money, so he agrees to tutor an Open University student.

His student, Rita, is a brash, earthy hairdresser with a recently discovered passion for higher education -much to the dismay of her husband Denny. In her attempts to appreciate literature, Rita challenges the attitudes of a traditional university, teaching Frank to question his own understanding of his work and himself. Daniel Mayes and Krista Strutz play Frank and Rita.