A production by Christine Harris and HIT Productions.

"True, touching and wonderfully funny..." Mail on Sunday

Australia's Premier Theatre Touring Company, HIT Productions is delighted to announce an Adelaide season of Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine starring Glenda Linscott (Prisoner, Murder Call).

Shirley Valentine, the award winning play (Best Comedy at the 1988 Laurence Olivier awards), is a funny yet moving piece of theatre by award winning playwright Willy Russell, (the playwright behind the highly successful Educating Rita).

Shirley Valentine is about escape. It takes the form of a monologue by a 42-year-old Liverpool mother and housewife, Mrs Joe Bradshaw, before and after a transforming holiday to Greece. Inside Mrs Joe Bradshaw, the former Shirley Valentine is longing to emerge. Her self-esteem is battered by school, marriage and life in general, and she finds herself talking to the wall while her husband is out working. She feels that her terribly mundane life has stagnated as she compares scenes in her current life with how she used to live. When her best friend wins an all expenses paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley grasps the opportunity to head for the sun, leave her current drudgery behind, rediscover herself, follow her dreams and get a new lease on life.

Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine boasts the accomplished talents of Director Jennifer Hagan (HIT'S Educating Rita), Designer Adam Gardnir (HIT'S Educating Rita), and Lighting Designer Michele Preshaw (HIT'S Barmaids).

"Shirley Valentine is about a slightly older woman kicking her heels (for good as it turns out) of British ignorance and insularity. It is a brilliant, funny, pathetic evening...Willy Russell has again managed to say something serious in a way that makes the audience fall over laughing." Daily Express

Produced by Adelaide born Christine Harris, Founder and CEO of HIT Productions. Christine is an award winning actress (Amy Carson in Carson's Law), recipient of the 1997 Victorian Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and 1999 Businesswomen's Hall of Fame inductee.

Shirley Valentine is part of over 50 weeks of national touring to be undertaken this year by this prolific company, HIT Productions, which has produced, as part of its 38 touring productions (1999 - 2008), such successes as Hotel Sorrento, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Love Child, Educating Rita, The Club and many more.

Suitable for 16 years +.

Some swearing is used during this production.