Shirley Valentine
From: Tuesday, 20th July 2010
To: Saturday, 30 October 2010
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Synopsis
Shirley Valentine's world is a world of kitchens, cooking and faded dreams. At the age of 42, Shirley feels that her marriage and life are in a rut. Her children have left home and she yearns for romance and adventure. But when a friend invites her on holiday to Greece will she have the courage to swap housework and drudgery for two weeks in the sun?
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 27 July 2010
Three months after opening at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Willy Russell season hits the West End to provide another high profile, surely successful transfer from the Southwark powerhouse.
The pairing of Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita looks more obvious, and more rewarding, than ever. Meera Syal’s perfect performance as Shirley, Saint Joan of the fitted units, exchanging her life of domestic misery for one of Greek Island fulfillment, remains one of brilliant technical accomplishment, now funnier and more moving than ever.
Shirley, directed by Glen Walford, easily out-gunned Rita at the Menier, where the second play had been snipped down to a ninety-minute version; but director Jeremy Sams has restored the full text, and the interval, and the improvement is enormous.
Also, Larry Lamb, shambling and benign though he was as Rita’s Open University tutor, Frank, has been replaced and utterly eclipsed by [Tim ...
Creative
Willy Russell (Author)
David Babani (for The Menier Chocolate Factory Productions) (Producer)
Sonia Friedman Productions (Producer)
Tanya Link (Producer)
Bob Bartner (Producer)
Glen Walford (Director)
Peter McKintosh (Design)
Paul Anderson (Lighting)
David Ogilvy (Sound)
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