Educating Rita Lashana Lynch as Frank and 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
Blood Brothers (EP) Blood Brothers (EP) Blood Brothers is a five-song EP by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, released in 1996. The EP was originally released along with a film, also titled "Blood Brothers", which documented the 1995 temporary reuniting of Springsteen with the band to record extra tracks for his "Greatest Hits" release of that year. Long out of print, the EP was re-released in January 2014 to ITunes, Spotify and other download sites. Four of the five songs on the EP were written and recorded in 1995 during the band's "Greatest Hits" sessions while "Murder Incorporated" was recorded live