Shirley Valentine

Author: Willy Russell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350412848
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
I'd fallen in love with the idea of living... because we don't do what we want to do, do we? We do what we have to do and pretend that it's what we want to do. Shirley Valentine is the joyous, life-affirming story of the woman who got lost in marriage and motherhood, the woman who wound up talking to the kitchen wall whilst cooking her husband's chips and egg. But Shirley still has a secret dream. And in her bag, an airline ticket... One day she may just leave a note, saying: 'Gone! Gone to Greece.' Willy Russell's celebrated one-woman play originally premiered in 1986 and became an instant classic, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and later being adapted into a successful film. This revised edition was published to coincide with the 2023 revival starring double Olivier Award and BAFTA winner Sheridan Smith.

Shirley Valentine & One For The Road

Author: Willy Russell
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408171546
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Shirley Valentine, 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads "Gone to Greece back in two weeks." "It is a simple and brilliant idea...the profound and perennial point of the comedy is the problem we seem to have contemplating the idea of a woman alone - in a pub, on a beach, in a restaurant. This is what Shirley learns to combat as she unravels her own sexual and social identity. The play is not only funny, it is also moving." (Michael Coveney, Financial Times) One for the Road "starts...with the mid-life hero torn between the security of married life in a dormer bungalow on a northern housing estate and dreams of being a rucksacked super-tramp. Mr Russell writes with knowledgeable venom about a world where Beethoven Underpass leads to Wagner Walkway and where anyone who doesn't join Weight Watchers or the Ramblers Club is regarded as a social deviant." (Francis King, Sunday Telegraph)

Valentine for a Dragon

Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN: 9780689310164
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
A demon thinks of a special gift to win the love of a lady dragon on Valentine's Day.

Shirley Valentine

Author: Willy Russell
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573691201
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
"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"--

Shirley Valentine

Author: Willy Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description

Shirley Valentine. [Hauptbd.] (1992)

Author: Willy Russell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783454668101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description

The Best Plays of 1988-1989

Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557830562
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 686

Book Description
Covers plays produced in New York, awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays

Lace

Author: Shirley Conran
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476725446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718

Book Description
"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York's Pierre Hotel to meet Lili -- a beautiful, young, and notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili and each of them is astonished to see the others. They are old friends who share a guilty secret and who have for years been doing their best to keep that secret quiet. Their lives are changed forever, however, when Lili suddenly confronts them. When the women refuse to answer her, Lili proceeds to travel around the world through the playgrounds of the rich and famous, seeking to answer the question that has obsessed and almost destroyed her. From Paris to London, from the boardroom to the bedroom, Lace takes the reader into the rarified world of five unforgettable women who are as beautiful, as complex and as strong as...lace.

Played in Britain

Author: Kate Dorney
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408164809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Published in collaboration with the V&A, Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date. Fully illustrated with photos from the V&A's collections, the book includes essays, review excerpts, plot summaries, extracts and insight into stage and costume designs.

New York Magazine

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.