Theatre: Educating Rita

The Lyric Theatre

The Lyric Theatre Belfast’s acclaimed production of Willy Russell’s award-winning comedy Educating Rita comes to An Táin Arts Centre.

A wise-cracking, no-nonsense hairdresser from the working-class streets of Belfast, Rita is tired of her job, her prospects, her husband, her life.  She wants to be the sort of woman who knows the difference between Shaw’s Bridge and George Bernard Shaw, and so enrolls in an Open Learning course in English Literature where she meets her tutor Frank – a lecturer from North Down who teaches at Queen’s University – and begins her journey of self-discovery….

Tickets €18 /€16