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	Shirley Valentine Summary
		Shirley is an ordinary housewife in Liverpool, northern England.
		Shirley¡¦s problem and so many other women¡¦s problem was that living for the family meant being someone¡¦s daughter, mother and wife, but not knowing how to be themselves.
		Shirley Valentine is, once again, a clear example of this when she acknowledges that her life is not exactly what she had expected: ¡§I¡¦ve lived such a little life.
	www.bookrags.com /Shirley_Valentine (950 words)

	Derby Playhouse – Shirley Valentine Details
		Shirley Valentine is in her kitchen preparing a meal of chips and egg.
		Shirley’s husband Joe is due home for his tea and she worries that he will be annoyed if his tea is not on the table when he arrives.
		Shirley feels that she will not go back with him but she is happy to wait for him so that he can see that she has re-found the Shirley Valentine she used to be.
	www.derbyplayhouse.co.uk /shirleyinfo.html (544 words)

	Shirley's Valentine daze - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shirley is remembered most for being the nurse whose photograph became one of the most enduring images of the Thatcher years.
		Shirley became the face of the nurses' pay bid and people stopped her in the street to tell her they supported her campaign.
		He told Shirley he had a present for her but that she had to collect it from a colleague who was staying in room three at a hotel in the west end of Glasgow.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/features/7005753.html (1431 words)

	shirleyv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shirley is assailed by second thoughts when her daughter reacts with disgust to the idea of her mother traveling alone to a foreign country, presumably in pursuit of illicit sex.
		Shirley Valentine, in other words, is a late twentieth-century version of a pervasive modern theme: the romantic quest for liberation, fulfillment, and self-affirmation, the pursuit of rebirth through rebellion.
		Shirley's path has been smoothed by those like Nora and Hedda who have preceded her, and so she faces neither the anguish of the former nor the despair of the latter.
	www.thepublictheatre.org /guides/9697_shirley_valentine.html (2789 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): SHIRLEY VALENTINE
		But Shirley also indulges in an extended riff on the fascinations of the mysterious clitoris, apparently discovered around 1975 and not a suitable topic for conversation or investigation as far as her husband is concerned.
		The Shirley of Russell's script, like the wonderful heroine of his earlier "Educating Rita" is a woman at war with the social restrictions that bind her class and gender, restrictions that insist that a woman must suppress essential elements of her human spirit.
		Shirley is elated because her Greek lover claims to be attracted to her bulges and stretch marks -- she exposes them as a declaration of independence and self-esteem.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/shirley.html (1414 words)

	MedicalpocketPC Shop - Shirley Valentine - Video
		She is so totally believable as Shirley, and the first time I saw this film I was 42 with the same life, the same husband and even the same wall.
		Shirley Valentine is a sparky and charming yet downtrodden woman in suburban London.
		Gillian Kearney is a delight as the younger Shirley during the highschool flashback sequence.
	www.medicalpocketpc.com /shop/info.php?asin=6301627024 (481 words)

	Shirley Valentine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shirley Valentine is a play by Willy Russell, first staged in 1986.
		It is a one-woman show, narrated by the title character; it appeared in the West End in 1988.
		Shirley is an ordinary housewife in Liverpool, northern England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shirley_Valentine (248 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Shirley Valentine \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Pauline Collins recreates her Tony-winning one-woman stage role in "Shirley Valentine," an "opened-up" film adaptation of the play that has her actually going to Greece instead of simply talking about it.
		Shirley is at first reluctant to leave her husband - which is actually just the fear of doing something new - but in the end she does go and, naturally, finds herself off on a voyage of self-discovery.
		Shirley speaks directly to the camera, spouts all kinds of humorous homilies and even shows us in flashback what her childhood was like at a girls' prep school.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1648,00.html (410 words)

	The Mountain Times
		Shirley Valentine, a one-woman show starring actress Rebecca Koon, opened to a packed house last Thursday and when the final curtain fell the entire audience stood and cheered what they found to be an enormously compelling performance.
		Shirley Valentine is essentially a comedy, but it deals so honestly with the issue of a woman’s midlife crisis that its dramatic capabilities are as strong as the humorous aspects.
		Shirley Valentine deals with some adult themes and may not be suitable for younger children.
	www.mountaintimes.com /mtweekly/2003/0807/shirleyval.php3 (484 words)

	Movie Review - Shirley Valentine - eFilmCritic
		Shirley is a normal middle-aged person, a little overweight, and with saggy boobs.
		Costas was attracted to Shirley in spite of her saggy boobs, stretch marks and age.
		The scene where Shirley stays in Greece is realistic because she doesn’t romantically go back to Costas, but stays because she wants the freedom of her new life away from her husband.
	www.efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=9451&reviewer=228 (683 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shirley Valentine Reviewed by Linda Lopez McAlister For The Women's Show, WMNF-FM, Tampa, FL July 6, 1990 Shirley Valentine is a British film that was shown in movie theaters in early 1990 and which received, at best, a lukewarm reception by the film reviewers in the local press.
		Shirley Valentine (played by Pauline Collins) is a 42 year- old, white, middle-class, English housewife whose kids are grown and whose husband has become a dour, boring, martinet who hardly speaks to Shirley except to give orders or complain.
		She's reduced to talking to herself or her kitchen wall, and wondering what ever became of Shirley Valentine, the spunky young woman with hopes and dreams that she used to be.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/shirley-valentine-mcalister (582 words)

	Willy Russell - Shirley Valentine
		Shirley Valentine takes the form of a monologue by a housewife before and after a transforming holiday in Greece.
		Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chips 'n' egg, wondering what happened to her life.
		Shirley Valentine opened in the West End in 1988 directed by Simon Callow and produced by Bob Swash.
	www.willyrussell.com /shirley1.html (482 words)

	Good Theater - Past Performances
		Shirley is a middle-aged housewife whose life is in a rut.
		Shirley Valentine, starring Lee K. Paige and directed by Brian P. Allen, was named one of the ten best productions of the year by the Portland Press Herald in 1993.
		Through her face she shows the transformation of Shirley — expressing sweet, doughty warmth in the kitchen, to a glowing, impish, voluptuousness on the beach in Greece.
	www.goodtheater.com /shows_shirley.html (295 words)

	Shirley Valentine - Video
		Shirley is no hero, she is no female icon and does not become anyone's object of worship, she just becomes herself, which turns out to be the best thing that could have happened to this movie.
		Shirley and her husband, Joe, live alone (the children have grown and moved away) in a pleasant home.
		Shirley's main companion is the kitchen wall--and she manages to have many a one-sided conversation with the wall while she cooks the meals and dreams of a holiday in Greece.
	video.realbuy.info /6301627024.html (736 words)

	City Stages News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shirley Valentine speaks directly to the audience and draws you into her story.
		This is what Shirley Valentine achieves and as a result becomes a role model for men and women of all ages.
		Shirley Valentine is the fifth show of the 2004 — 2005 season at Brüka Theatre and has been indefinitely extended.
	www.theatercoalition.org /article_display.php?article_key=469 (277 words)

	New Stage Ensemble Theatre
		As Shirley sips a glass of wine, she dreams of drinking in a country where the grape is grown.
		Shirley’s rebirth is brilliantly depicted with humor, warm sympathy and human insight by Russell (author of Educating Rita and Blood Brothers).
		Shirley Valentine was produced by New Stage in Johnson Studio Theatre November 1996.
	www.winthrop.edu /vpa/New_Stage_Theatre/NSTE/shirley_valentine.htm (188 words)

	Valentine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SHIRLEY Valentine is a glorious fairytale about a ‘sleeping beauty’ — a middle aged household drudge who has forgotten what fun is — woken by the kiss of a foreign sun and a Mediterranean lover.
		The play is a clever piece of writing, which presents all the characters in Shirley’s past and present through her own words, in a series of monologues.
		Shirley thinks sex is overrated — ‘like Sainsbury’s — a lot of pushing and shoving and you still come out with very little’.
	www.irvingstage.co.uk /valentine.htm (618 words)

	Stage (012997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shirley denies she's a feminist ("I don't hate men"), but her friend Jane, betrayed by a tomcatting husband, feels differently.
		As Shirley departs (she leaves husband Joe with a freezer full of foil-wrapped dinners), she reminds herself she should have told him she was going--if even he'd notice.
		While the action of Shirley Valentine is set in a kitchen, it would never be confused as a "kitchen-sink melodrama." It is class-bound and female-centered, but not in a political or polemical way.
	newtimes.rway.com /1997/012997/stage.htm (1155 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Shirley Valentine : Plot
		In the film version of Shirley Valentine, Pauline Collins re-creates the role that had previously brought her theatrical fame and a Tony Award.
		Spending the bulk of the film speaking directly to the audience, the titular Shirley (Collins), a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, reveals her innermost thoughts and fears in a manner that is both insouciant and poignant.
		Shirley Valentine represents the second felicitous collaboration between playwright Willy Russell and director Lewis Gilbert; the first was the equally marvelous Educating Rita (1983).
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/31462/plot.jhtml (219 words)

	Grecian formula works well for 'Shirley' \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Her various disappointments are revealed gradually, among quirky stories of a friend from school who became a high-class hooker, and the steak dinner that was to be her husband's, which she instead fed to an unhappy bloodhound whose vegan owners raised it as vegetarian.
		As Shirley muses on what happened to her once-happy marriage, she realizes it's what didn't happen that alienated her from husband, Joe, and more important, from herself.
		"Shirley Valentine" will probably resonate more with an empty-nest crowd that has begun to ask where the time has gone than it will with younger audiences.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040503/news_1c3shirley.html (601 words)

	Shirley Valentine (1989)
		Shirley Valentine is a plucky housewife in the grips of a nasty midlife crisis.
		The movie opens with Valentine unburdening herself to her kitchen wall and addressing the camera directly, a technique that director Lewis Gilbert employs over and over again, in the apparent hope that this will draw the viewer in.
		Shirley is only 42, but from the way she dresses and the way she talks, one might be led to believe that she is a good 20 years or more older.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1508&buy=open&PID=10125467&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (605 words)

	‘Shirley Valentine’ (R)
		We meet Shirley (the stage version's original star Pauline Collins) long after she married and became Shirley Bradshaw.
		She's cooking her husband's habitual Thursday night dinner (steak and chips, but Shirley gave the steak to her vegan neighbors' deeply unhappy dog, so there'll be hell to pay), sipping a glass of white wine and talking, as usual, to the kitchen wall -- and to us.
		And her confidential tone is winning -- when Shirley drops one of her wisecracks (which are actually wise, more often than not), it feels personal.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/shirleyvalentinerbrown_a0adae.htm (527 words)

	The Real Theatre Company Ltd -"Bringing Professional Theatre to the North Shore" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shirley Bradshaw, nee Valentine (Nancy Schroder), is a fossil of the energetic girl who married Joe too young and raised children who have largely forgotten her.
		There is great humour here of a profoundly English working class variety as Shirley reveals herself to us slowly and without any pathos as a woman rendered intangible by the relentless wash of her small life's tides, one who finally takes her own rescue in hand.
		Dated as many references in the play have become, Shirley is still a recognisable woman caught in a still believable trap; but as the play gets further from the moment of its conception, it becomes more difficult to make a production succeed.
	www.realtheatre.co.nz /Reviews/Reviews.htm (445 words)

	ArtSavant - reviews - Shirley Valentine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shirley is ready to bust out of her confining little life, and is using the audience to garner courage.
		Shirley is played by Rebecca Koon, who is well known to local theatre-goers as the star of scores of plays, including last year’s “Wit,” as well as many feature and television movies.
		While Koon is amusing as Shirley’s nosy neighbor Gillian, and perfectly insolent as Shirley’s sullen daughter, it is Koon’s impersonation of the sexy Greek tavern owner Costas that best expresses the range of her talent.
	artsavant.com /reviews/2002lmt0818.html (476 words)

	ACTS OF LOVE HUSBAND AND WIFE SEND "VALENTINE" TO LITTLE THEATER OF VIRGINIA BEACH PATRONS
		SHIRLEY HURD'S slender hand is trembling as she lifts a cup of cappuccino to her lips.
		``Shirley Valentine'' is the story of a bored Liverpool woman named Shirley Bradshaw who spends her time talking to herself and the wall in her kitchen.
		During the first scene, when Shirley is talking to herself in her kitchen, she debates whether to accompany a feminist friend on a trip to the Greek Islands.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950112/01120042.htm (898 words)

	Act react present ‘Shirley Valentine’ [MaltaMedia.com]
		Shirley Valentine, a one woman play is splendidly written Willy Russell, who also wrote Educating Rita and Blood Brothers.
		Donna Combe portrays the character Shirley Valentine excellently, bringing out the funny but rather battered side of wife and mother who has been taken for granted all her married life.
		Shirley Valentine is so bored and lonely, she ends up talking to her kitchen wall while preparing her husband`s dinner; an everyday occurance.
	www.maltamedia.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=8&num=4696 (291 words)

	SHIRLEY VALENTINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ostensibly a fairly broad comedy, the play is driven by a probing seriousness and celebrates the possibility that one’s self-imposed, quotidian prisons might be escaped even after 20 years of marriage.
		By the time Shirley made the climactic decision to leave for Greece without telling her husband, the audience seemed to be applauding not the actor so much as the character.
		The play’s loveliest motif is the idea that Shirley has become weighed down and transformed by all the "unused life" she has stored up inside of her.
	www.oobr.com /top/volNine/thirtyone/shirley.htm (364 words)

	Welcome to the Abbotsford Times - On Line - Showtime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mission actor Victoria Bennett is Shirley Valentine in Valley Theatre Projects' 'Shirley Valentine,' which runs Nov. 12-13, Nov. 19-20 and Nov. 27 at Matsqui Centennial Auditorium in Abbotsford.
		The play is Shirley Valentine, a production that has kept audiences laughing around the world since 1988, one that relies solely on one actor to carry the entire play.
		Shirley Valentine follows the life of its namesake as she slowly realizes her life revolves around her kids, husband and house.
	www.abbotsfordtimes.com /issues04/112204/showtime.html (434 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Shirley Valentine (xhtml)
		Shirley's husband is a kind but remote figure; her marriage is cheerless; she feels life slipping from her grasp.
		Shirley drifts lonely as a cloud through restaurants and hotel lobbies and plazas and beachfronts until she catches the eye of a handsome waiter (Tom Conti), who asks her to go for a ride on a boat.
		"Shirley Valentine" was directed by Lewis Milestone from a script by Willy Russell, based on Russell's stage play, but they have not solved the problem of how to tell the story.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19890915/REVIEWS/909150303/1023 (585 words)

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