Ohnsorg-Theater comedies, the majority of them set in the typical environment of Northern German farmers, fisher men or merchants from Hamburg, the theatre also performs more serious works of traditional literature and musical theatre as well as adaptations in "Platt" of international material such as the stage version of Stephen King's "Misery" and original plays such as Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Robert Thomas's "8 Women", Willy Russell's "Shirley Valentine", Lawrence Roman's "Alone Together" or Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The theatre was founded by Dr. Richard Ohnsorg (May 3, 1876 - May 11, 1947) in 1902 as
Educating Rita (film) literature. Her assigned Open University professor Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) however, openly abuses alcohol and soon develops misgivings about Rita's ability to adapt to student culture. Bryant is a jaded university lecturer, who describes his occupational ability as "appalling but good enough for his appalling students". His passion for literature is reignited by Rita, whose technical ability for the subject is limited by her lack of education but whose enthusiasm Frank finds refreshing. To illustrate the rhyming principle of assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds, Dr. Bryant gives as an example the words 'swans' and 'stones' from W B Yeats's