It’s Shirley Bradshaw. Well, I'm not sure if I've read the same play as the other reviewers talk about. Stay where the audience won’t see you when she opens the door. I was hyper and hectic. I thought to meself, my life has been a crime, really—a crime against God, because … I didn’t live it fully. Or in a flat American tone? Equity/professional customers should contact the Licensing department directly at [email protected] to inquire about a title's availability. You can cancel anytime. The school had a brochure about its various arts programs that didn’t list individual faculty; I’d applied late and rushed my decision and never actually talked to anyone from the drama department. Shirley Valentine is her maiden name, who she used to be, but then by the end of the play it’s who she is again. But much more than that I simply liked being in the theater: hearing the stage manager telling jokes over the intercom system, watching how the addition of a single Fresnel to a light wash changed the way the stage looked, listening to Johanna and the director talk about a certain line, speaking a kind of shorthand to each other. So i give it 4stars. He said my stretch marks showed that I was alive, that I’d survived … that they were marks of life. I confess that in that pre-internet era, I had not done much due diligence looking into UNC’s theater program before I arrived. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. - The New York Post, "A thrilling, cheer raising piece of theatre." The heroine in this actor's tour-de-force is an ordinary middle class English housewife. Start planning your production with a cost estimate you can save and share with your team. And I saw the actor inside her switch on as she gave me a tiny gift. The lady in the admissions office had the kind of Southern accent you hear in movies. And I said, “Oh my god, I forgot to set the eggs.”. Shirley Valentine is a two-act play. His best-known works are, “I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.”, “She divorced her husband, y' know. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her … Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Whose life was she living? Stop freaking. At intermission we had to help switch out the kitchen set for the Greek beach set. 235 Park Avenue South Her children are all grown up and she frequently talks to the wall in her kitchen while preparing her husband’s regular evening meal of egg and chips. I had a girlfriend and a group of buddies but I was lonely all the time. Thank you for that wink, which sent my life spinning in a direction I never could have anticipated. (Pause.) During tech week, rehearsals started at 3, so I got to leave pre-calc early every day. Ultimately, Shirley does escape to Greece, has an "adventure" with a local fisherman and decides to stay. This hilariously engaging play was a hit in London and New York, performed by Pauline Collins, who later recreated her role on film garnering an Oscar nomination. Yes, we will. Johanna was an acting professor, it turned out, in North Carolina—“Nawth Carolina,” she said, doing the accent perfectly—and she told me I’d love it there. That was the whole business of Act 1, Scene 1! Winked. Beautiful. I hoped Shirley Valentine would help me figure it all out. Cheshire, CT, Pericles I was insufferable. How the nature of memory was such that I didn’t even truly know, anymore, what I remembered wrong, what I’d subconsciously changed all the times I’d retold this story, what I’d never even known in the first place. I watched Johanna and her husband, glamorous, surrounded by well-wishers, holding forth like theatrical royalty. “I don’t know, maybe she teaches somewhere else,” he said, “but she doesn’t teach here.” Was she in the communications studies department, or English, or something? Here’s to you, Shirley Valentine. It was a series of idiotic mistakes that I’d like to imagine no one, in 2020, would ever make; a bit of simple Googling would answer the question “Is this amazing actress actually a professor at the school she’s talked me into applying to?” pretty quick. Philadelphia, PA, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent © 2020. Funny, sweet and short. Shirley Valentine (Original, Play, Solo, Broadway) opened in New York City Feb 16, 1989 and played through Nov 25, 1989. Shirley Valentine was first presented by Bob Swash in London's West End in 1988. Tbf it was a decent book with a good little story. And you did have stars in your eyes.” She sipped her tea fondly. Act 1 is set in Shirley’s kitchen in Liverpool. We had two minutes and 37 seconds to accomplish this change, the running time of the song that played during the blackout, “When I’m Sixty-Four.” By the third week of performances we had this down, me and the other stagehand, the union guy.

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