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,
In the act the actress who plays Sheila is told to act as though the
she is reading Macbeth’s letter. She says “Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, not heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry ‘Hold, hold’!” (Act I, scene v, ll.50-54). She is already planning the murder of Duncan long before her husband’s return.
Following Abigail’s behavior in the forest, the evil in her becomes even more evident throughout the play, supporting her devil figure characterization. In Act One, after Betty wakes up from her “illness” Betty says that sh...
In Act 1, scene7 she really excel’s herself in how far she will go to manipulate Macbeth, to get her way. He not prepared for her rage when he announces his change of heart.
At the start of the play she was described as a girl who is very
believe she is; after all, it was quite clear from the end of scene 3
is otherwise known as Kate. At her first entrance in Act 1 Scene 1 she
While she elicits her evil character in the mere shadows of the play, in public, she is able to act as Duncan “honoured hostess”, enticing her victim, into her castle. When she faints immediately after the murder of Duncan, the audience is left wondering whether this, too, is part of her act. This c...
worse and worse...go at once..." She is still very protective of Macbeth's reputation and is
He is a lazy man, bored and frustrated by his life he too does not
Theatre-In-Education The theatre education industry/movement has seen some rapid changes since its initial developments and establishment in the 1960’s. However its origins mainly lie in the early years of the last century. It was the initial establishment of companies such as Bertha Waddell’s in Scotland and Esme Church’s in the north of England that thoroughly established the main roots of TIE.
Directing Television programs requires hardwork and dedication and this involves taking some risks about your life too because as a television director you have to work with different people of different characters and when people are on stage performing they have to work according to your directions. People become tense on stage and they sometimes become frustrated easily by being asked to repeat the same thing so many times and some end up losing temper and they can sometime injure the director both emotionally and physically. There is never free time for television directors, instead of paying more attention to the family needs they devote so much time to their work because of the artistic ideology they posses, wherever they are they should be thinking about how they will direct in the next project and what new things to add on that particular program to put a new look hence giving inadequate attention to their partners/family. “Rafkin recounts how his directing of temperamental actors, as he confronted their frustrations and dodged their blows, made life on TV set a world unto itself. Indeed, having a good sense of humor helped him survive three divorces and as many open-heart surgeries ( Alan Rafkin, Tales from TV's Most Prolific Sitcom Director).
In Act One, Scene One when Rita is first introduced, she’s a hairdresser and part of the working class. Russell introduced Rita as an audacious, ambitious but egoistic character. She isn’t scared to express her opinion, which generally amuses the audience, such as when she describes her opinion on the painting in Frank’s office she interprets it differently to what majority of the population would. The reason for her different interpretation is that she’s not educated to the degree that she would be familiar with that style of painting, this also becomes obvious when Frank and Rita discuss challenging death and disease: Rita refers to a poem that people in her class are more likely to read (later she describes this kind of poetry as ‘the sort of poetry you can understand’ and assumes that Frank won‘t like it as it’s simple and doesn’t have any hidden meanings) when Frank thought she was referring to a more sophisticated poem by Dylan Thomas. Throughout the scene we learn that Rita wants to understand ‘everything’ so she can enjoy things like ballet or opera, and that’s the reason why she enrolled on the course in the first place. She explains that she didn’t believe the University would accept her and the audience can see that she’s scared of what it might mean.
did for her. Before Shylock leaves the house in act 2 scene 5 he tells
elected by the group to be our new Schill, and in a small space of