Shelagh Delaney - A taste of Honey.
S.B.N. 416 61440 4
REPRINTED 1970
Kenmerken :18.3x12.2x0.7cm 88pag 89 gram
Taal : engels
Staat : lichte sporen gebruik, rest perfect
A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 18. It was initially intended as a novel, but she turned it into a play because she hoped to revitalise British theatre and to address social issues that she felt were not being presented. The play was first produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and was premiered at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, a small fringe theatre in London, on 27 May 1958. The production then transferred to the larger Wyndham's Theatre in the West End on 10 February 1959. The play was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961.
A Taste of Honey is set in Salford in North West England in the 1950s. It tells the story of Jo, a seventeen-year-old working class girl, and her mother, Helen, who is presented as crude and sexually indiscriminate. Helen leaves Jo alone in their new flat after she begins a relationship with Peter, a rich lover who is younger than her. At the same time Jo begins a romantic relationship with Jimmy, a black sailor. He proposes marriage but then goes to sea, leaving Jo pregnant and alone. She finds lodgings with a homosexual acquaintance, Geoffrey, who assumes the role of surrogate father. Helen returns after leaving her lover and the future of Jo's new home is put into question.
A Taste of Honey comments on, and puts into question, class, race, gender and sexual orientation in mid-twentieth-century Britain. It became known as a "kitchen sink" play, part of a genre revolutionising British theatre at the time.
By way of a visual backdrop to A Taste of Honey, Delaney reflected on life in Salford in a documentary, directed by Ken Russell, for BBC television's Monitor that was broadcast on 26 September 1960.[

Original cast and crew (1958, London)
• Helen – Avis Bunnage
• Josephine – Frances Cuka
• Peter – Nigel Davenport
• The Boy – Clifton Jones
• Geoffrey – Murray Melvin
• The Apex Jazz Trio- Johnny Wallbank (cornet), Barry Wright (guitar), Christopher Capon (double bass)
• Setting by – John Bury
• Costumes by – Una Collins
Shelagh Delaney :
Of Irish ancestry, Delaney was born in 1938 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire.[ She was the daughter of a bus inspector. She failed the eleven plus exam four times, and attended Broughton Secondary Modern school before transferring to a Pendleton High School at the age of fifteen where she gained five O-levels.
Delaney wrote her first play in ten days, after seeing Terence Rattigan's Variation on a Theme (some sources say it was after seeing Waiting for Godot), at the Opera House, Manchester during its pre–West End tour. Delaney felt she could do better than Rattigan, partly because she felt "Variation..." showed "insensitivity in the way Rattigan portrayed homosexuals". Her play, A Taste of Honey, was accepted by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. "Quite apart from its meaty content, we believe we have found a real dramatist", Gerry Raffles of Theatre Workshop said at the time. In the production's programme Delaney was described as "the antithesis of London's 'angry young men'. She knows what she is angry about."
• A Taste of Honey, first performed on 27 May 1958, is set in her native Salford. "I had strong ideas about what I wanted to see in the theatre. We used to object to plays where the factory workers came cap in hand and call the boss 'sir'. Usually North Country people are shown as gormless, whereas in actual fact, they are very alive and cynical."
• Reuniting the original cast, the play subsequently enjoyed a run of 368 performances in the West End from January 1959; it was also on Broadway, with Joan Plowrightas Jo and Angela Lansbury as her mother in the original cast. It is "probably the most performed play by a post-war British woman playwright".

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