Written by: Willy Russell
Produced by: David Babani for Chocolate Factory Productions & Sonia Friedman Productions, Tanya Link, Bob Bartner and Bob Boyett
Praise for Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita at the Menier Chocolate Factory:
Shirley Valentine
“Syal’s lovely performance, and Glen Walford’s beautifully judged production…
will glow in the memory of all who see it.”
- Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
“a triumph…affecting, funny and fresh”
- Dominic Maxwell, Times
“Meera Syal is irresistible as Shirley Valentine: warm, communicative and bittersweet. She has the audience eating out of her hand.”
- Kate Kellaway, Observer
Meera Syal: “London’s Best Comic Performance”
- Time Out
Educating Rita
“Newcomer Laura Dos Santos is a marvellously convincing Rita – a talent to watch.”
- Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday
“Superb, humorous and deeply moving. A truly great play.”
- Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
“Laura Dos Santos displays impeccable comic timing as Rita and combines this talent with an understanding of the pathos that lies behind a young woman aching for self-improvement.”
- Paul Callan, Daily Express