AND ANDREA TOO?

Wow, just how autobiographical is “Rita, Sue and Bob Too?”

Andrea Dunbar, 26, who wrote it, describes her randy (and provocative) tale of two working class girls who menage with the guy for whom they’re babysitting as “quite common where I come from. . . . Not the three people thing--but guys taking up with young girls and ditching their wives and families.”

But some of the advance reports and reviews suggests that Dunbar lived this sort of life.

“Gawd, no,” insisted Dunbar, who still lives in the depressed Yorkshire village of Bradford where her story’s set. “It’s about how people survive. There’s nothing much to hope for here. It’s hard to get a job, so most people just give up trying and go on the dole or hope someone with money will come along.”

Ironically, she noted that her plays (“Rita, Sue” is based on material from two) aren’t performed in the area and only a few friends have taken the four-hour train ride to London to see them performed. “They say they liked them because they were funny. But no one’s said, ‘I know that person’ or ‘That happened to so-and-so.’ I don’t think they recognize themselves.”