Shirley Valentine review " huge laughs and tender feelings at a Liverpool homecoming
Everyman, LiverpoolBack at the theatre where it premiered in 1986, Willy Russell's play about a midlife voyage of self-discovery retains both its local and universal appeal There is a marvellous passage towards the end of the first act of Willy Russell's evergreen monologue. Shirley has told us about her irritating neighbour Gillian, a master at one-upmanship, when unexpectedly she receives a gift from her. Far from …