Shirley Valentine

Inside Mrs. Joe Bradshaw – middle-aged 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. With great trepidation Shirley seizes the opportunity and goes. Shirley, breaking out of the mould cast for her by society, is brilliantly shown with humor, warm sympathy and human insight. The play, not only funny, is moving and poignant.