by Anthony Shaffer

Directed by Owen Phillips

The Grand - Clitheroe

June 2012

Synopsis

Bored with teaching undergraduates English literature, Frank Bryant

morosely reflects through a whisky glass on his failed marriage and his

attempt at becoming a poet. His world is turned upside down by the arrival of

Rita, a hairdresser who has decided to find herself by taking an Open University

course. Excited by her freewheeling and acute observations, and - let's be

honest - by Rita herself, Frank also feels a deep sadness as he watches

her warm impulsive reactions being replaced by the sort of cold analytical

approach he so much loathes in other students and colleagues.