Shirley Valentine

A housewife from Liverpool who feels herself talking to the wall and is preparing eggs and chips for her husband. She does not understand what happened to her life and she puts scenes from life now as to how she was when she and our frozen and that she has her hands bound the five. But when a holiday with all expenses paid allows her to leave her life as slavery wife, she leaves a note on the table that says, 'gone to Greece for two weeks', Shirley then starts looking at the world and herself in a different way.

Playwright: Willy Russell
Translation: Gearóid Ó Cairealláin
Date of first production: 27 February 2000
Venue: Cultúrlann Mc Adam Ó Fiaich

Original Cast
Shirley	Frances Quinn

Production Team
Director	Mary Ryan
Lighting Designer	Gearóid Ó Cairealláin
Set Designer	Seán Mac Seáin

Shirley Valentine

Monológ mheidhreach ag bean tí as Learpholl a mhothaíonn í féin ag caint leis an bhalla agus í ag ullmhú ubh agus sceallóga dá fear céile. Ní thuigeann sí cad a tharla dá saol agus cuireann sí radharcanna óna saol mar atá anois leis an dóigh a mbíodh sí tráth agus dár lei go bhfuil sí sioctha agus go bhfuil ceangal na gcúig gcaol uirthi. Ach nuair a thargaíonn a huchtchara saoire beirte le gach costais íoctha fágann sí sclábhaíocht a saoil mar bhean chéile, fágann nóta ar an tábla a deir, 'imithe chun na gréige ar feadh coicíse'. Ansin tosaíonn Shirley ag féachaint ar an saol agus uirthi féin ar dhóigh eile ar fad.

Scríbhneoir: Willy Russell
Aistriúcháin: Gearóid Ó Cairealláin
Dáta an chéad léirithe: 27 Feabhra 2000
Ionad: Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich

Cliar Bhunaidh
Shirley	Frances Quinn

Foireann Léirithe
Stiúrthóir	Mary Ryan
Dearthóir Soilsithe	Gearóid Ó Cairealláin
Dearthóir Seite	Seán Mac Seáin

Léiríodh an dráma seo arís i mí Dheireadh Fómhar 2006 le Bríd Ó Gallchoir i ról Shirley stiúirithe ag Niall Ó Sioradáin.