A brand new manufacturing of the basic comedy SHIRLEY VALENTINE starring Sheridan Smith and directed by Matthew Dunster will play at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre from Friday 17 February 2023 for 12 Weeks.
Shirley Valentine is the joyous, life-affirming story of the lady who acquired misplaced in marriage and motherhood, the lady who wound up speaking to the kitchen wall while cooking her husband’s chips and egg. But Shirley nonetheless has a secret dream. And in her bag, an airline ticket. One day she could go away a word, saying: ‘Gone! Gone to Greece.’
Shirley Valentine is the celebrated one-woman play written by Willy Russell, successful him his third Olivier Award. Sheridan Smith is a multi-award-winning actress with two Olivier Awards and a BAFTA. Matthew Dunster is a three-time Olivier Award nominated director whose work most not too long ago has been seen on Broadway with Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen and within the West End with 2.22 by Danny Robins on the Criterion Theatre.
SHERIDAN SMITH is an award-winning stage and display actress, whose acclaimed West End credit embrace enjoying Elle Woods in Legally Blonde on the Savoy Theatre and Doris in Flare Path at Theatre Royal Haymarket, each roles garnering her Olivier Awards, and the latter the Evening Standard Award as Best Actress. She acquired additional Olivier nominations for her efficiency as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors on the Menier Chocolate Factory and Duke of York’s Theatre, and Fanny Brice in Funny Girl on the Savoy Theatre. Other notable performances embrace Hedda Gabler at The Old Vic, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Noel Coward Theatre, the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on the London Palladium, and her stage debut as Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods on the Donmar Warehouse. Amongst her prolific display roles, Sheridan was Emmy-nominated and gained a BAFTA as Mrs Biggs, and additional BAFTA-nominated for The C Word and her titular function in Cilla, for which she was additionally Emmy-nominated. Big display credit embrace Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet and most not too long ago The Railway Children Return. She has launched two albums, titled Sheridan and A Northern Soul, leading to two Classic BRIT Award nominations.