Continuing with its one of the busiest seasons so far, Actreact is now getting ready for its next production for this month at St James Cavalier. Shirley Valentine, a one woman play is splendidly written Willy Russell, who also wrote Educating Rita and Blood Brothers. The script is full of wit, humour, with a touch of sadness narrated by the accomplished English guest artiste Donna Combe.
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. Her feminist friend comes in and invites her to go to Greece on a holiday with her and with a lot of trepidation and forward planning, she seizes the opportunity and goes, to encounter a totally different lifestyle. Shirley, breaking out of the mould cast for her by society, meets someone in Greece. The new lifestyle, together with the sexual experience she encounters, changes her life and Shirley makes a decision to stay.
"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)
The production will be held between 21st and 23rd January, and between 28th and 30th January at St James Cavalier, Valletta. The show starts at 1930CET.
Tickets: Lm 7.50 (stalls) Lm 5.50 (balcony). Bookings for tickets can be made by email address: boxoffice@sjcav.org
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