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A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey
Adult: General. Academic/professional/technical: Further/higher education. Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate
Shelagh Delaney
Bloomsbury Academic
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Artikel-Nr:
9781408106013
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.09.2008
Seiten:
96
Autor:
Shelagh Delaney
Gewicht:
130 g
Format:
201x133x12 mm
Serie:
Methuen Student Editions
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

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 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. She died in 2011.Elaine Aston is Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University.

'Miss Delaney brings real people on to her stage... she is busy recording the wonder of life as she lives it' Kenneth Tynan, Observer

A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1958. Now established as a modern classic, this comic and poignant play, by a then nineteen-year-old working-class Lancashire girl, was praised at its London premiere by Graham Greene as having 'all the freshness of Mr Osborne's Look Back in Anger and a greater maturity.' It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1962.

The play is about the adolescent Jo and her relationship with her irresponsible mum, Helen, the Nigerian sailor who leaves Jo pregnant and Geoffrey, the homosexual art student who moves in to help Jo with the baby. It is also about Jo's unshakeable optimism throughout her trials. This story of a mother and daughter relationship (imitated in many other modern British plays since), set in working-class Manchester, continues to engage new generations of audiences.

Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style

Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style
50 years after first publication, the annual sales for A Taste of Honey are in excess of 1,000 copies

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