Shirley Valentine

13 – 29 October

By Willy Russell

Directed by Elizabeth Newman

Designed by Emily James

Lighting Designer Jeanine Byrne

Sound Designer Patricia Panther

Shirley Valentine is a celebration of women, freedom and what it means to find yourself again. We meet Shirley, a bored, middle-aged wife and mother, when she’s contemplating what has happened to her youth, feeling stagnant and in a rut. 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. When her best friend offers to pay for a trip for two to Greece, she packs her bags, leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen, and heads off for a fortnight of rest and relaxation. In Greece, she meets Costas, rediscovers herself, finds happiness, and everything she has been missing.  She realises that there is more to life than the dull, mundane existence she leads back home.  So now, Shirley has a big decision to make.

Produced by Pitlochry Festival Theatre, presented in association with An Tobar and Mull Theatre.

Access Performances:

Captioned perf: 22nd Oct, 2.00pm
Audio Description: 27th Oct, 2.00pm
BSL Interpreted: 27th Oct, 7.00pm