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Many people may already be familiar with Shirley Valentine since this British production made its debut on the big screen a couple of years ago. Those who are not should rush to see Tina Packer's one woman extravaganza...
...acts, the show's heroine, Shirley Valentine manages to portray the dreary existence of a working class English housewife and her quest to break out of the confines of her kitchen. She confides her deepest sexual secrets--namely her absence of orgasm--and travels with the audience to the Greek Isles, where she takes a lover. With humor and spunk, Shirley makes a new life for herself...
...Shirley Valentine...
...first glance, this tale of one woman's mid-life crisis may not appeal to a college audience, and it is true that the capacity crowd at the Thursday night show consisted of the mid-twenties and up crowd. But Shirley has a lot to say about life, love and happiness--universal themes any crowd can relate to. Her speech about sexual satisfaction (or rather the lack thereof) could have come from the lips of any lusting student. She rather wittily refers to her orgasm as undiscovered territory and is just waiting for her "Christopher Columbus" to arrive...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Melinda J. McAdams, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...