feature - Submitted by K.E. Weber on Friday, 4th Nov 2011
Meet Frank, a boozy, burnt-out professor who wants nothing more than to drink himself into oblivion, and Rita, a free spirited hairdresser who thinks Macbeth is the guy who runs the local pub - she's also Frank's newest Open University student. Educating Rita is a beautiful bittersweet comedy about a man who has given up on life and a woman who is determined to change hers.
STAG continues its mission to encourage and promote the works of local playwrights with a full season of Manuel Casha’s new play The Last Days. This follows last season’s premiere of Katerina.
‘Now I understand,
What you tried to say to me,
And how you suffered for your sanity,
And how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen,
They did not know how,
Perhaps they’ll listen now.’
-Don McLean, “Vincent (a.k.a. Starry Starry Night)” (1970)
“One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them." Alan Bennett