;s style of dress at the start of the play represents her larger than life character. Her second hand "frocks" are worn with high heels and big hairdos. The fact that she is wearing second hand dresses may perhaps show that she is not being totally herself, or what she would ideally like to be as she is wearing clothes that were once someone else's. if I were directing the play, I would ensure that the visual transformation in Rita's character is substantially visible to the audience so that the actual metamorphosis in Rita's personality is clearer. To do this with Rita's clothes I would make the initial and final appearance look very different to each other, but the changes throughout the play very gradual. Changing more dramatically when something significant occurs such as Rita returning from summer school when he personality has also changed quite a bit. I would show the changes in her appearance by changing her hairstyles or perhaps even changing the colour of her !
             hair. I would start off with Rita's character daubed in make up at the beginning of the play and the final sophisticated Rita would be shown as wearing less make-up and wearing smarter clothes, perhaps a ladies suit or a new dress would be more suited to the 'new' Rita. These changes in Rita's character could be accented by how Frank remains the same visually and by his reactions to how Rita becomes more independent and pretentious.
             When Rita originally goes to see Frank she is raving about a book she particularly enjoyed entitled "Rubyfruit Jungle" which she found enthralling and was so mesmerised by it, she changed her real name, Susan to that of the author of "Rubyfruit jungle": Rita. Her admiration for "Rubyfruit Jungle" showed how she appreciated "literature" and was eager to broaden her scope on novels. She longed to do 'what the students do' and achieve s...