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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1f
Willy Russell
Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell
The heroine in this actor's tour-de-force is an ordinary middle class English housewife. As she prepares chips and egg for dinner, she ruminates on her life and tells the wall about her husband, her children, her past, and an invitation from a girlfriend to join her on holiday in Greece to search for romance and adventure.
“Russell’s script shows a deep and compassionate understanding of a certain kind of working-class woman at a certain age.” — The Guardian
“In this play [Mr Russell] touches English audiences directly in a way that no other playwright has done since the early John Osborne ... brilliantly funny ...” - The Times
“Absolutely smashing.” - The New York Post
“A joyful, captivating piece of theatre.” - The New York Daily News
“A thrilling, cheer raising piece of theatre.” - The Financial Times
Willy Russell’s career spans more than four decades; born in Liverpool in 1947, he left school at 15 and became a women’s hairdresser and part-time singer/songwriter performing on the local folk scene before returning to education and becoming a teacher.
Whilst at St Katharine ...
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