- Paperback: 75 pages
- Publisher: French (1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0573691207
- ISBN-13: 978-0573691201
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,681,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Willy Russell's plays... speak to even the critical heart.' Libby Purves, The Times, 28.07.10 'When Shirley blossoms on her sneakily planned Greek holiday, her feminimity unfurls disarmingly, and there are moments of pathos throughout.' Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 28.07.10 'You peer into these windows onto other lives, and see your own world partially reflected back at you. Highly recommended.' Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph, 29.07.10
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Shirley Valentine, 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads "Gone to Greece back in two weeks." "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) One for the Road "starts...with the mid-life hero torn between the security of married life in a dormer bungalow on a northern housing estate and dreams of being a rucksacked super-tramp. Mr Russell writes with knowledgeable venom about a world where Beethoven Underpass leads to Wagner Walkway and where anyone who doesn't join Weight Watchers or the Ramblers Club is regarded as a social deviant." (Francis King, Sunday Telegraph)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The play itself is about smart-mouthed Liverpudlian housewife Shirley Bradshaw, who, trapped in her own empty nest and a mundane marriage, heads to Spain and meets a charming waiter, with whom she embarks upon an affair. Willy Russell's unconvential heroine and her even more unlikely beau were swiftly brought to the screen by Pauline Collins and Tom Conti in a successful film adaptation, but the story is much more suited to the stage, and this edition of the script is as good as any; suitable for students and amateur theatre companies alike, with a decent binding and film tie-in cover.
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This is the script of the film, not of the stage play. It has some good disscusion on the themes and style of the script. I loved the film so obviously i loved this too.
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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If you're a frustrated housewife or fearing to become one you'll love this one woman play. Hey, who of us has never felt like speaking to the kitchen wall ? Shirley tells it about all her problems and her dream of going to Greece. And in the end all turns out nicely.
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