First issued by Methuen in 1959, this play was the first title in the "Modern plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoer This title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of titles in print .
Shelagh Delaney was born in Salford, Lancashire. She is most well-know for a Taste of Honey, for which she won the Foyle's New Play Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. She wrote the screenplay for the film version with Tony Richardson and was awarded the British Film Academy Award and the Robert Flaherty Award. Her other screenplays include The White Bus and Charley Bubbles, for which she won the Writers Guild Award. She has also written for television and radio and has had a collection of short stories published.
Some of Delaney's themes may feel dated but her writing still
glitters dangerously and wittily. A Taste of Honey remains a
passionate statement about real people trapped in poverty, deprived
of ambition and vulnerable to manipulation by the fickleness of
others.
*Independent (19 November 2008)*
Brawling, boozing, teenage pregnancy and fractured families:
Shelagh Delaney's benchmark drama, first staged by Joan Littlewood
in London in 1958, has lost none of its relevance 50 years on...
The quirkiness and passion of Delaney's young voice still rings
out... It remains passionate and pungent.
*The Times (19 November 2008)*
Its raw eloquence, sometimes almost lyrical, its tough, swaggering
humour...its frank brutality and unblinking humanity.
*Sunday Times (23 November 2008)*
A full-throated voice ... in all its anger, frustration and hope
... it demonstrates a narrative grip, a power of language, and a
deep sense of drama that still shows the way, to generations of new
writers with more pretension, but far less courage and passion.
*A Taste of Honey*
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