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BUY TICKETS NOW! Shirley Valentine is a one-woman show starring Helena de Crespo and directed by Don Horn. SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICING ALL SHOWS $15 General • $12 Student • $10 Student Rush* *10 minutes before curtain subject to availability	Oregon Stage Works presents Helena de Crespo in Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell in association with triangle productions! and The Worcester Group Shirley Valentine is a Liverpool housewife. Her children are grown and gone and her dull, predictable husband expects set meals on set days. They don't talk anymore; Shirley makes do by having an ongoing one-sided conversation with her kitchen wall. And just when it seems nothing will ever change-something does. Shirley's best friend wins a trip for two to Greece, and offers Shirley the chance to go. Will she take it? In “Shirley Valentine,” our Liverpudlian Everywoman protagonist uses her very common tongue with humor, grace and eloquence to reveal her heart, enchant the audience, and take us with her as she decides whether-or not-to make a jailbreak. • 1988 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy • 1988 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress • 1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play • 1989 Outer Critics Circle Awar for Best Actress • 1989 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play • 1989 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut
Helena de Crespo (Shirley Valentine) was born in Barcelona, Spain, and educated in Bristol, England, before attending The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She also studied simultaneously at London University for her Diploma in Dramatic Art and the London Guildhall of Music and Drama. Recently, she graduated as an arts administrator from the University of Wisconsin. Helena has performed all over the UK in theatre, television and radio, and has been featured in television, film, and theatre in the US. She is a member of Actors' Equity in Britain, Actors' Equity US, The Screen Actors' Guild (SAG), and The American Federation of Music and Radio Artists (AFTRA). In Colombia, South America, Helena was a resident lecturer at La Escuela Nacional del Artes Dramaticas at el Teatro Colon in Bogotá; she also toured Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela with El Grupo deTeatro 502, and received an ONDRA award. In Costa Rica, Central America, Helena worked with the Presidential Palace in San Jose, and instituted programs in drama at the suggestion of UNESCO. A cultural center was opened in her name: La Casa del Cultura Helena de Crespo. Helena has received funding for her work in the US from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mobil Corporation, and the Virginia Arts Council. Check out Helena's website: www.helenadecrespo.com
About the Worcester Group The Worcester Group was formed as a producing organization helping Helena de Crespo to perform one-woman shows. Its mission has expanded to include her international work. In Colombia, South America, Helena, under contract to Colcultura, The Department of Culture of the Colombian Government, was a resident lecturer at La Escuela Nacional del Artes Dramaticas at el Teatro Colon in Bogotá. With El Grupo de Teatro 502, her work was seen in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela as well as Colombia, for which she received the ONDRA award. In Costa Rica, Central America, Helena worked directly with the Presidential Palace in San Jose, and instituted programs in drama at the suggestion of UNESCO. A cultural center was opened in her name: La Casa del Cultura Helena de Crespo. The Worcester Group is also providing various kinds of support to two theatre troupes in Cambodia, as a means to further the restoration of theatre arts in that country. Click here to support the program: www.cambodiantreasures.com
About triangle productions! triangle productions! is approaching its 20th year producing a variety of theatre that, as its mission states, "seeks to entertain and educate the audience." Over the years triangle has produced such award winning plays and musicals as I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (running over 52 weeks), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (over 23 weeks), Beirut, Bent and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom—just a few of the over 150 productions presented—not to mention world premier production such as Tonya (Harding) and Nancy (Kerrigan): The Rock Opera and currently Night With Day (about Billie Holiday). As triangle enters its 20th season, it's hard at work on two new production which will be again, world premieres: Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) and Milk The Cow. triangle's company was based in the Theatre! Theatre! building in SE Portland which was owned and operated by triangle founder Don Horn, and the company has produced in Seattle, San Francisco, Salem, Ashland and Portland. The motto of triangle has always been, "Go out on the limb, that's where the fruit is!"
About Helena's Costume Designer Kristin D. Jager has costumed hundreds of shows in the past 30 years. Recent productions include Wind in the Willows for Central Catholic High School, which involved costuming 38 actors as animals in Victorian dress, and Talking Heads for Worcester Group. Kristin's credits also include Boston Marriage and Chateau Joyeux for CoHo Productions; Murder in a Nunnery and Ten Little Indians for Central Catholic High School; Peter Pan, St. Joan, Into the Woods, and Antigone for Jesuit High School; Comedy of Errors for Shakespeare in the Park; and Twelfth Night for Tygre's Heart Theatre. She has worked with ART and The Musical Theatre Company. She creates costumes for female impersonator Sasha Scarlett, and the occasional wedding dress. Kristin is also a Reiki practitioner. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Portland, and lives with her husband David in Portland, Oregon.