MMU’s School of Theatre receives more than 1,000 applications each year and has nurtured talents like Steve Coogan, Bernard Hill, Anthony Sher, David Threlfall and Richard Griffiths, that other Harry Potter regular!įor more about MMU's School of Theatre, go to .uk/courses/programme/1001. "In the end, I got a letter from a director at the University saying: "Look, we're SORRY she didn't get in!" There was this little girl with glasses throwing up in a bucket – she didn’t get in!Īnd she jokes: "MMU must have suffered because I've told absolutely everybody that story! "I remember she came to MMU for an audition.
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Whilst a student in Manchester, Julie met comedienne Victoria Wood, with whom she later collaborated on the hit series Wood and Walters. So, I went and auditioned, and I got in!" "Luckily", she continues, "a friend at Manchester Metropolitan told me they had a drama course and encouraged me to apply. I had to look it up in the dictionary! I was told that with only four GCSEs, I couldn’t possibly go to University. "My school basically said they didn't want me back. I just used to look at the television and think "I could do that"."īooted out of school at 16, Julie (like Rita in the film) was offered a second chance to an education by MMU based on her talent and potential, rather than formal qualifications. "When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor they just didn't understand. So, it was great to learn about the truth of acting. For starters, you're cast in roles that you otherwise wouldn't be cast in, and you get to do it without critics or newspapers and the media. She said: "I trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and it was just the most wonderful way to learn. It starred Julie Walters and Mark Kingston. Educating Rita premired at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980.
It was Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University tutor. The double-Oscar nominated star whose film credits include Educating Rita, Billy Elliot and Harry Potter, was speaking to Broadway World, a New York entertainment website. Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. By 1983 it had risen to be the fourth most popular play on the British stage.
It was voted ‘Best Comedy of the Year’ when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980.
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