Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad. Wondering what has happened to her youth and feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley finds herself regularly alone and talking to the wall while preparing an evening meal of egg and chips for her emotionally distant husband. When her best friend offers to pay for a trip-for-two to Greece, she packs her bags, leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen,
Willy Reske Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul's for 33 years. He composed hundreds of hymns and organ pieces. Reske wrote the music to the following hymns in the 1985 English edition of the Latter-day Saint hymnal: Willy Reske Willy Julius Reske (September 25, 1897 – September 17, 1991) was a noted organist and composer. He wrote the music to several LDS hymns, two of which are in the current edition of the hymn book of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Reske was born in Königsberg, East Prussia. His parents were Julius Reske and Louise Schmidtke. Reske