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[THEATER PREVIEW] EDUCATING RITA at BTF
8.27.07
BERKSHIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL
Educating Rita
Unicorn Theater, Stockbridge, Mass.
A Berkshire Theater presentation of a play in two acts by Willy Russell. Directed by Richard Corley.
Frank - Jonathan Epstein
Rita - Tara Franklin
by CHRIS NEWBOUND from VARIETY
Educating Rita, with its ever-popular "Pygmalion" storyline, is the perfect play to fill out a regional theater season. Not surprisingly, the dependable Berkshire Theater Festival delivers a solid if somewhat paint-by-numbers production of the one-set two-hander about an undereducated working-class girl looking for transformation and the overeducated professor she meets. But despite providing a suitable number of laughs while dealing with the more serious topics of education and the U.K. class system, helmer Richard Corley's take on Willy Russell's '80s comedy barely lingers in the mind beyond the drive home.
The play has a proven track record, having had a successful run on the West End some 25 years ago and spawning a memorable film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters (who both received Oscar noms for their perfs in it). But its theatrical structure, with its too-many-to-count first act scenes, is awkward. The numerous blackouts and costume changes grow wearisome despite the bouncy period punk tunes used to fill the silence.
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