Bridget Jones's Diary

"We're not lonely. We have extended families in the form of networks of friends," says Tom, joining Sharon in deploring others' "arrogant hand-wringing about single life." 

Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary

Are friends the new family like Tom says? You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family!

We're showing the wonderfully funny Bridget Jones's Diary on Saturday at 5 pm. in the Language Institute Theatre. All our welcome and it's free! So come and improve your English and have a laugh.

Bridget is a 30 something unmarried professional woman, who is caught in a bit of a trap - a sort of modern day Catch 22. She reads Women's magazines and wants to be slim and beautiful, and find that handsome man to marry, but she's smart and wants to be independent.

So she fluctuates between smoking, drinking and having a good time, and denial and diets. We've all been there - that yo yo affect.

It's a poignant story that is becoming very applicable in Asia, where women are not marrying and having babies like they used to, but they want a guy, that knight in shining armour, who turns out to be a cad or a butterfly, who won't commit.

What will Bridget do? Come and find out. Then we can talk about it after.

"Screamingly funny."
—USA Today

"Bridget Jones is channeling something so universal and (horrifyingly) familiar that readers will giggle and sigh with collective delight."
—Elle

"Good-bye Rules Girls, hello Singletons . . . Endearingly engaging."
—The New York Times Book Review