A CHANCE meeting and a mutual love of Educating Rita was the spark for the major new production of the acclaimed Willy Russell play, which opens in Southampton next week. Jessica Johnson will play Susan Rita White, the Liverpudlian hairdresser aiming for a better life at the Open University, opposite Stephen Tompkinson as her frustrated professor Frank Bryant. And it all came about after a serendipitous meeting between the two leads when both were performing at Live Theatre in Newcastle. Jessica said: We crossed paths and got chatting, and I just said to Stephen I thought he would make an amazing Frank. I had just done a short run of Educating Rita in Durham at the Gala Theatre, and was telling Stephen how I d love to get a longer run at this incredible role.
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First published on Sun 13 Jun 2021 08.58 EDT
A visit to a beautiful open-air clifftop theatre in Cornwall by partners of the G7 leaders ended in embarrassment for the UK government after the culture secretary wrongly claimed it had received emergency funding during the Covid crisis.
Following the hugely successful visit to the Minack theatre, perched dizzyingly above the Atlantic, the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, tweeted that he was delighted that Jill Biden and Carrie Johnson had visited the âstunningâ theatre.
But he added: âThis unique venue was one of more than 650 theatres helped through Covid with support from the £2bn culture recovery fund, ensuring that it can entertain visitors for years to come.â