Centaur Theatre Company

shirley valentine

Review: Shirley Valentine
"Sure, you’ve probably seen the Shirley Valentine movie, starring Pauline Collins. But you may not have seen the 1988 play, which contains even more laugh lines. And up until now, Montrealers haven’t had a chance to see Nicola Cavendish in a role that seems to have been written with her in mind...."
By Pat Donnelly, Gazette Culture Critic

Q92's Donna Saker reviews Shirley Valentine.

Mose Persico interviews Shirley Valentine's Nicola Cavendish.

January 27 - February 22, 2009

Groupe SMi

Centaur Theatre Company presents a co-production with Canadian Stage Company
SHIRLEY VALENTINE
By WILLY RUSSELL
Directed by ROY SURETTE

STARRING

Set Design by Anne-Séguin Poirier
Costume Design by Philp Clarkson
Lighting Design by Luc Prairie
Stage Manager: Rick Rinder
Assistant Stage Manager: Vincent Absi
Assistant Directed by Sophie Gee

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.

"A SIMPLE AND BRILLIANT IDEA. Profound. The play is not only funny, it is also moving."
- Financial Times, London

"Nicola Cavendish is simply magnificent, A SURE-FIRE SMASH HIT."
- CBC Radio

"The perfect balance between hysterically funny one moment and heart-rending the next...UNIVERSAL EMOTIONAL PUNCH."
- Coral Andrews-Leslie

"She's (Nicola Cavendish) not just Shirley Valentine; SHE'S A UNIVERSE."
- The Globe and Mail