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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ISBN
9781408160954
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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