Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine. Starring Jodie Prenger.
Milton Keynes Theatre March 27th 2017.
Having seen the film with
Pauline Collins we weren’t sure whether this performance was going to be solo, as
originally written, or with more cast members as per the film.
However, Jodie Prenger
certainly stepped up to the mark with a solo performance that was
par-excellance.
Blessed with a most brilliant
and witty script her comic timing was spot on, and properly carried Willy
Russell’s excellently observed narrative of a woman’s life, from the
circumstances that he had observed during his time working and then running his
own ladies hairdressing salon in the 1970’s.
The play is set in two scenarios:-
Shirley’s kitchen at home, where we learn about her history and how trapped she
feels with her current circumstances as a wife whose family have now left home,
living with a similarly trapped husband who has a strict regime for his home
life (i.e. it’s Thursday so it must be steak and chips night and will not
deviate from this).
The scene is then moved to on
to the beach in Greece, where she has escaped with a friend, without telling
her husband. She feels that here she has at last got away from her ritualistic
life and found freedom and the person she was before her marriage. To the point
where she has jumped out of the check-in queue to return back to the UK, and she
now has a job in Costa’s bar with whom she had a short term fling just after
she arrived in Greece.
As we leave her, she is
sitting on the beach waiting for her husband to walk by, as he has now arrived
in Greece to find her.
Jodie portrays Shirley with
great enthusiasm and a vibrant personality and makes this a most entertaining
performance. A great evening.
On until Saturday 1st April. Tickets from www.atgtickets.com/Miltonkeynes or telephone 0844 871 7652 (booking fee applies)
On until Saturday 1st April. Tickets from www.atgtickets.com/Miltonkeynes or telephone 0844 871 7652 (booking fee applies)
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