Shirley Valentine
by Willy Russell

Shirley Valentine Book Cover
Shirley Valentine Cover

Synopsis

"Inside Mrs Joe Bradshaw--42-year-old mother of two grown children--is the former Shirley Valentine longing to get out.

Her hope and self-confidence badly shattered by school, marriage and life, she is reduced to talking to the kitchen wall whilst preparing her husband's evening meal--to be on the table as he opens the front door every night.

As she sips a glass of wine she dreams of drinking in a country where the grape is grown.

Her feminist friend offers her a holiday in Greece and, with great trepidation and a lot of forward planning, Shirley seized the opportunity and goes, to encounter a totally different lifestyle.

Shirley, breaking out of the mould cast for her by society, is brilliantly shown with humour, warm sympathy and human insight by the author of Educating Rita and Blood brothers"--

Themes

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 1 total roles, 1 female roles.

Publication

Publisher
Samuel French
Year Published
1989
ISBN 10
0573691207
ISBN 13
9780573691201
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
36 pages
Place Published
New York
Language
English
LCCN
gb90036353
Print
Shirley Valentine is a British play written by and published by Samuel French in New York, 1989. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780573691201 and an ISBN-10 of 0573691207.

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