Educating Rita Educating Rita Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University lecturer. Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, "Educating Rita" premièred at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980 starring Julie Walters and Mark Kingston. The play was directed by Mike Ockrent. The plays follows the relationship between a 26-year-old Liverpudlian working class hairdresser and Frank, a middle-aged university lecturer, during the course of a year. In the play Frank has no surname, but when the film was made he became Dr. Frank
Educating Joey Essex Educating Joey Essex Educating Joey Essex is a British television programme which began airing on ITV2 on 16 March 2014. The show features former "The Only Way Is Essex" star Joey Essex and is narrated by Phillip Schofield. The first programme aired in March 2014 and was originally planned to be a one-off special. On 5 June 2014, a full series was announced. In 2016 it was announced that "Educating Joey Essex" would return for a second series filming started in April. Series 2 premiered 12 June 2016. Essex announced whilst on ITV This Morning on 28 June 2017 that