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A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company. It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1961. The play is about the adolescent Jo & her relationships with those about her - her irresponsible, roving mother Helen & her mum's newly acquired drunken husband, the black sailor who leaves her pregnant & Geoffrey the homosexual art student who moves in to help with the baby. It is also about Jo's unshakeable optimism throughout her trials. This story of a mother & daughter relationship set in working class Manchester continues to enthral new generations of readers & audiences.Now established as a modern classic, this comic & poignant play by a then nineteen-year-old working-class Lancashire girl was praised at its London premiere in 1958 by Graham Greene as having "all the freshness of Mr Osborne's Look Back in Anger & a greater maturity."°°° Shelagh Delaney was born in Salford, Lancashire. She is most well-known for A Taste of Honey, for which she won the Foyle's New Play Award & the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. She wrote the screenplay for the film version with Tony Richardson & was awarde

Who reads A Taste of Honey?

Author

Shelagh Delaney

Publisher

Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing, National Theatre

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472583789

Category

science

Subjects

Drama, Fantasy, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (85 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14