Written after Educating Rita and Blood Brothers, and very much in a similar tone, Shirley Valentine is the feel-good, feel-sad tale of a woman who realises that the best bits of life have passed her by. Here is regret and self-doubt written in the life a 42 year-old woman with grown-up kids " and a husband who uses the fact that he loves her to ignore her.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM on June 1, 2017