We're at the end of our novel study thankfully, but i still have to finish 2 more blogs preceding this one for assignments. this one is about the plot of the story. First of all, there is barely - if at all - a plot in this play. Wikipedia states in their definition of 'plot' that " One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional effect. " I was not interested. Maybe if this was actually done in a theatre I might be somewhat interested, but just reading the play had of no interest to me. The supposed 'climax' of the story was when Rita freaks out on Frank because he was complaining that he barely knows her anymore, and they never talk, so she storms out. Pretty weak climax huh ? I would expect that to be in the rising action at least but not even near the climax. Then in the last act, you never know if the conflict is resolved, because Frank is getting shipped off to Australia, and Rita doesn't know whether she's staying in London or Going to France. Then all of a sudden she gives him a hair cut and that's the end.
Yeah.
That being said, I did not find the ending satisfying. You don't know what happens to them, you don't find out how they even feel about eachother, you never know whether or not Rita is in fact crazy, but it ended ! I don't know what kind of feedback the author got on his rough draft of this but people don't like cliff hanger endings ! It might seem like I'm just bashing this book left right and centre, but if you have actually read this, you should know just what I'm talking about and how awful this play is.

Well we've started our novel study in our class. Sadly, instead of reading from the great William Shakespeare for our drama, we're reading fromsome author called "Willy Russell" who sounds like Shakespeare's younger under-achieving 2nd cousin. This play has nothing that an actual play has in the theatre. This play only has two characters in the whole play, and only one scene in all of its two acts. Now, tell me if that doesn't sound just a little bit outof place. Educating Rita, to me, it's more like an attempt to get into the acting business, without actually doing any researchor actual work on it. There's hardly any character development, and there's not really any serious problems until midway through the play. I am writing this a little late, and have already read the play all the way through, so there's not really any reasonable way I can make any predictions. The fact that it takes place in Britain though makes the plot a little better, and actually gets me a little bit interested, because I love the British. As a matter of fact, the only way that this play could ever become interesting, whether in movie form or for live theatre would be if John Cleese was playing Frank ( the male main character in Educating Rita ). That comedian can make anything bearable. Whether you have read this play or not, the beginningof this particular play is a sheer warning that you should not read any further, and put the book down and leave. Sadly, I had no choice in my english class.