Discuss the changes in the characters in Educating Rita and explain how these are portrayed differently in the stage and screen versions of the play.

Discuss the changes in the characters in Educating Rita and explain how these are portrayed differently in the stage and screen versions of the play.
Educating Rita is a play about Rita, a working class hairdresser who yearns for a change in her life and to be better educated; also it is about a dissipated literature professor who tutors Rita to earn some extra money. Rita decides to become educated to improve her life style; she wants to understand literature and theatre.
Many of the changes in the play occur mainly due to the ways Rita and Frank interact and change each other, this is sh…