This Play is the story about a relationship between two completely different people.
             Frank, a man with some drinking problems, has agreed to tutor a student from the Open University. He's a former poet, but nowadays he's drinking and going to the pub most of the time. The student he's going to tutor is Rita, a 26-year-old married woman from Liverpool. They like each other right away. Rita's husband, Denny, doesn't like Rita getting an education. Rita and Frank mostly talk about famous writers and poets, but also about their lives. Rita is easy to teach; her essays and opinions become more and more advanced. One night Denny burns Rita's books and she decides to move from him. Rita goes to summer school, and when she comes back, she's a lot more mature. Frank doesn't like it and tells Rita that she's far from educated, but Rita does not thing like him and they get into a big fight. At the end of the play Frank apologises and gives Rita a dress that he bought " for an educated woman I know".
             Rita and Frank are the only two characters whom we see on stage, though other people are referred to by both of them. We hear about Denny, Rita's husband, about Julia, Frank's partner, and about Trish, Rita's flatmate, who attempts to kill herself. But it is Rita and Frank whom the audience gets to know best.
             Rita is a working-class, twenty-six-year-old hairdresser who wants to enrol on a literature course at the Open University. It has been a difficult decision for her, as she had to give up her old lifestyle and at a final point also to break down all the contacts from her old life. She changes her life completely and gradually becomes absorbed by culture and literature. After her flatmate attempts suicide, she begins to realise, that all the answers cannot be found in art and literature. But she decides to continue as a student and finally passes her examination.
             Frank, an university lecturer in English Literature, has got a...