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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36
SHIRLEYĀ
VALENTINE
walks
back,
an'
looks
atĀ
me,Ā
all
puzzled
an'
quizzical,Ā
I'll
say
to
himĀ
-
'Hello.
I
used
toĀ
beĀ
the
mother.
I
used
toĀ
be
your
wife.
But
now,
I'm
ShirleyĀ
ValentineĀ
again.Ā
Would
you
like
to
join
meĀ
forĀ
a
drink?'
Blackout
One
forĀ
the
Road
ThisĀ
pageĀ
intentionallyĀ
leftĀ
blankĀ
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