January 27 - February 22, 2009

Montreal Premiere

A Co-production with Canadian Stage Company

By WILLY RUSSELL
Directed by ROY SURETTE
Starring
NICOLA CAVENDISH

Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Performance
Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance

Alone in her bland kitchen, consumed by boredom and the dull ache of routine, Shirley Valentine is talking to the walls until she commits the ultimate housewife faux-pas: serving her husband the wrong dinner. With resolve and determination, she leaves behind an uncommunicative spouse, a drop-in daughter and a drop-out son to board a flight to beautiful, sunny Greece and find the love, joy, wonder and passion she thinks she left behind with her youth.

“Nicola Cavendish is simply magnificent, a sure-fire smash hit”
- CBC Radio

"She’s not just Shirley Valentine; She’s a Universe.”
- The Globe and Mail