Just announced - "Shirley Valentine" extended!
Three more performances have been added for "Shirley Valentine" at Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma - 8 p.m. Thursday, June 16; 8 p.m. Friday, June 17 and 8 p.m. Saturday, June 18.
Reservations highly recommended.
"MUST SEE: Mary Gannon Graham plays Shirley Valentine to perfection. Shirley Valentine's life-affirming discovery is nothing short of contagious." David Templeton - Bohemian / Member SFBATCC
Dan Taylor Arts Blog announces extension for "Shirley Valentine" here...
" 'Shirley Valentine' at Cinnabar...a must see...Mary Gannon-Graham sheds any personal traits to become the title character in this solo performance...she creates a dozen other off stage characters with her deft voice intonations and nuanced body movements."
Kedar K Adour, MD - Member BATCC
Review courtesy of www.theatreworldinternetmagazine.com
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David Templeton's weekly KRCB Second Row Center
weekly radio commentary brings the Bay Area stages right into your car, workplace or living room.
Listen to Templeton's review of the 2011 Cinnabar Theater production of "Shirley Valentine," starring Mary Gannon Graham.
Petaluma Argus Courier
"Graham is brilliant in the role. With a confident tilt of the head and eyebrow twitch, she conveys volumes about the character and her entanglements. She had the audience fully engaged and giggling along at every humorous bit, and breaking out in guffaws at the larger funny moments." Read more...
Lynn Schnitzer
Petaluma Argus Courier
Petaluma Patch
"I encourage others to see the show. Graham is a very talented actress whose interpretation of Shirley Valentine - now through June 12 - will remain one of the most vicarious vacations I've ever taken." Read more...
Karen Pierce Gonzalez - Rohnert Park Patch
Bohemian
"MUST SEE: Mary Gannon Graham plays Shirley Valentine to perfection. Shirley Valentine's life-affirming discovery is nothing short of contagious." Read more...
David Templeton - Bohemian / Member SFBATCC
Dan Taylor, Press Democrat
May 19, 2011
It's a one-woman show starring longtime local favorite Mary Gannon Graham as a British middle-aged, working-class housewife who dreams of freedom.
Shillington and Graham previously collaborated on a sold-out run of “Shirley Valentine” in 2008 at the Sonoma County Repertory Theater in Sebastopol.
"Shirley Valentine"
She's gone to Greece...back in two weeks.
Be sure to listen to this great interview with Mary Gannon Graham (Shirley Valentine).
Click the "Listen to the Interview " button under the picture on the the KSRO website
Reviewed on FolkHeart Press
So what's so important about a one-woman show that highlights a vacation Shirley Valentine takes to Greece? Well, in this case the protagonist is a typical British middle-aged, working class housewife who takes the vacation of a lifetime WITHOUT bringing her life along.
What happens to her is at the heart of this theatrical presentation. Scheduled to run May 27-June 12 at the Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma (North San Francisco Bay Area) this show tells Shirley as much about herself as it tells the audience.
Dan Taylor, Press Democrat
January 21, 2011
Mary Gannon Graham’s reprise of the one-woman show, “Shirley Valentine,” about a middle-aged English housewife searching for freedom, was scheduled to open in Sebastopol this spring.
If you haven’t seen Graham in this show, you should.
To quote my own review of her 2008 performance of “Shirley Valentine” at the Rep:
“If there’s only one actor, it had better be the right one. When the one chosen is Mary Gannon Graham, a dynamic performer since her early shows at Santa Rosa Junior College in the ’80s, all is well.”
