WILLY RUSSELL Finishes West End Run, 10/30

Following a sell-out season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the West End run of Willy Russell's Educating Rita starring Tim Pigott-Smith and Laura Dos Santos, and Shirley Valentine starring Meera Syal, will close on Saturday 30 October 2010 as previously announced.
 
Educating Rita: Much to the dismay of her husband Denny, Rita, a young, brash hairdresser, has recently discovered a passion for English literature and enrols with the Open University.  Her fresh, unschooled reaction to the classics challenges the attitudes of the University and her lecturer Frank who begins to question his own understanding of his work and himself.
 
Meet Shirley:  a middle-aged Liverpudlian housewife who talks to the wall whilst preparing her husband's egg and chips.  She's in a rut.  What has happened to her life?  When her best friend Jane pays for a holiday for two to Greece she packs her bags, heads for the sun and starts to see the world and herself rather differently....
 
Educating Rita, directed by Jeremy Sams, and Shirley Valentine, directed by Glen Walford, both have designs by Peter McKintosh, lighting by Paul Anderson and sound by David Ogilvy.  The Willy Russell Season is presented in the West End David Babani for Chocolate Factory Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions, Tanya Link, Robert G.Bartner/Norman Tulchin and Bob Boyett. 
 
 
Theatre: Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY
Dates:  Until Saturday 30 October 2010
Performances: Monday - Saturday at 7.30pm
                    Thursday and Saturday matinees at 3.30pm
For full details on the performance schedule please check the website or call the box office
Box Office:  0844 8717632
Tickets: £15 - £39.50
Website: www.willyrussellseason.com