Grace Jordan is Shirley Valentine in this comedy. (Written by Willy Russell, directed by Ron Pollock.) It’s on at the Surf on two nights: Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th. Showtime is 8 pm. Tickets are available at Artworks. (Adults: 18.00, Students 10.00.) To make dinner reservations at the Surf’s Driftwood Restaurant, call 247-9231.

The Shirley Valentine website introduces the show:

Inside Mrs. Joe Bradshaw – 42 year-old mother of two grown children – is the former adventurous, vibrant Shirley Valentine longing to get out. Her hopes and self-confidence shattered by school, marriage and life, she is reduced to talking to the kitchen wall whilst preparing her husband’s evening meal.

Shirley dreams of drinking a glass of wine in a country where the grape is grown as she fries up his ‘chips and egg’. Out of the blue, her ‘feminist’ friend offers her a holiday in the sun. With great trepidation and a heck of a lot of soul searching, Shirley finally seizes the opportunity and flies off for a fortnight in the Greek Islands! Once there she finds the love, joy, wonder and passion she left behind in her youth. [continue]

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