It is more than 30 years since Willy Russell's Thatcher-era two-hander of working-class aspiration first appeared.
It is more than 30 years since Willy Russell's Thatcher-era two-hander of working-class aspiration first appeared.
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Neil Cooper
But with higher education once again becoming the preserve of a privileged elite, there's a contemporary poignancy to what is essentially a platonic rom-com.
Tamara Harvey's touring production, co-produced by the Menier Chocolate Factory and Theatre Royal Bath, nails its Scouse colours to the mast from the off by using orchestral instrumental versions of Beatles songs as pre-show music. When pop got ideas above its station in this way and went classical, the legion of mop-topped autodidacts that came out of the closet were clearly kin of Russell's Rita.
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