{"id":31887,"date":"2022-12-10T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/10\/sheridan-smith-returns-to-the-west-end-in-willy-russells-shirley-valentine-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T08:23:16","slug":"sheridan-smith-returns-to-the-west-end-in-willy-russells-shirley-valentine-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/10\/sheridan-smith-returns-to-the-west-end-in-willy-russells-shirley-valentine-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheridan Smith returns to the West End in Willy Russell\u2019s Shirley Valentine \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Pugh\u00a0is delighted to announce a brand new manufacturing of\u00a0Willy Russell\u2019s basic comedy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shirleyvalentineonstage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Shirley Valentine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0starring\u00a0<strong>Sheridan Smith\u00a0<\/strong>and directed by\u00a0Matthew Dunster\u00a0at\u00a0London\u2019s Duke of York\u2019s Theatre\u00a0from\u00a0Friday 17 February 2023 for 12 weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Shirley Valentine<\/em> is the joyous, life-affirming story of the girl who received misplaced in marriage and motherhood, the girl who wound up speaking to the kitchen wall while cooking her husband\u2019s chips and egg. But Shirley nonetheless has a secret dream. And in her bag, an airline ticket. One day she could depart a be aware, saying: \u2018Gone!\u00a0 Gone to Greece.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Shirley Valentine<\/em> is the celebrated one-woman play written by Willy Russell, profitable 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 lately has been seen on Broadway with Martin McDonagh\u2019s Hangmen and within the West End with 2.22 by Danny Robins on the Criterion Theatre. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Pugh, the five-time Olivier Award profitable and Two-time Tony Award profitable Producer stated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cBack in 1986 I was lucky enough to see the first ever production of Shirley Valentine in Liverpool. I have begged Willy to one day let me produce a revival of Shirley Valentine when the casting was right. That day is now and both Willy and I believe that Sheridan Smith is the perfect Shirley Valentine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sheridan Smith stated\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cAs a mum now myself I\u2019m delighted to be playing theatre\u2019s best-loved mum and I am honoured to be entrusted by Willy Russell to bring his Shirley to life once again in the West End. Now, to practice cooking chips and egg!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Shirley Valentine <\/em>is written by Willy Russell, directed by\u00a0Matthew Dunster, designed by\u00a0Paul Wills, with lighting design by\u00a0Lucy Carter, and sound design by Ian Dickinson\u00a0for Autograph.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] David Pugh\u00a0is delighted to announce a brand new manufacturing of\u00a0Willy Russell\u2019s basic comedy\u00a0Shirley Valentine\u00a0starring\u00a0Sheridan Smith\u00a0and directed by\u00a0Matthew Dunster\u00a0at\u00a0London\u2019s Duke of York\u2019s Theatre\u00a0from\u00a0Friday 17 February 2023 for 12 weeks.\u00a0 Shirley Valentine is the joyous, life-affirming story of the girl who received misplaced in marriage and motherhood, the girl who wound up speaking to the kitchen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}