A Taste of Honey: A Play - Softcover

Delaney, Shelagh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802131859 ISBN 13: 9780802131850

Publisher: Grove Press, 1994

Synopsis

A sensational theatrical success in London, A Taste of Honey was written by Shelagh Delaney at the age of 18. The play prompted Graham Greene to say that it had all the freshness of Mr. Osborne’s Look Back In Anger and a greater maturity.” A Taste of Honey won Miss Delaney two national awards, the sale of film rights productions at Stratford, London, and Paris, and a round of applause from the critics.

The play is the story of a working-class, adolescent girl and her relationships with the Black sailor who makes her pregnant; the homosexual art student who moves into her apartment to help her through her pregnancy; her fun-loving, saloon-frequenting mother; and Peter, her mother’s newly acquired husband. Jo moves, in a very detached way, within this economic and emotional whirlpool. Miss Delaney translates these emo­tionally charged situations into a non-sentimental and realistic play.

About this title

Book Description:

This comic and poignant play, by a nineteen-year-old working-class Lancashire girl and first produced by Theatre Workshop in 1958, is now regarded as a modern classic.

From the Back Cover:

A sensational theatrical success in London, A Taste Of Honey was written by Shelagh Delaney at the age of 18. The play prompted Graham Greene to say that it had 'all the freshness of Mr. Osborne's Look Back In Anger and a greater maturity.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802131859
• ISBN 13: 9780802131850
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96