When you’re discovering yourself, the first step is figuring out what self it is you want to discover. You try out different possibilities to see which one fits the best, whether it be professions or social groups, and try and decide if you could be a better you through dressing in a certain way or becoming more educated. Once you’re there, though, you have to decide if the new you is really any different than the person you started with.
Both a teacher and student get the chance to figure out who they really are in “Educating Rita,” which Salt Lake audiences will get the chance to see when it comes to Pinnacle Acting Company Feb. 2-18 (tickets are available by calling 801-634-5802). The show, which was also made into the 1983 movie starring Michael Caine, follows a professor and student through the spring and fall of a single year as they change each other’s perspectives for both good and ill.
"I wanted to make a play which engaged and was relevant to those who considered themselves uneducated, those whose daily language is not the language of the university or the theatre,” said Willy Russell, the playwright. “I wanted to write a play which would attract, and be as valid for, the Ritas in the audience as the Franks."
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