Educating Rita in 1980s Belfast is a lesson for us all

The show tours to Waterford, Limerick and Cork until the end of March, before playing at the Gaiety Theatre

Michael James Ford and Kerri Quinn in Lyric Theatre’s production of Educating Rita

Educating Rita

Lyric Theatre, Belfast

On tour

Rating:****

Hairdresser Susan White “wants to know everything”. She has just turned 26 and realised there is more to life than soft perms and highlights. She may be a working class woman, but she wants a different, “better song to sing”.

So, she changes her name to Rita, a tribute to her favourite writer, and enrols in an Open University course in English Literature, hoping to ...