A Taste of Honey at @GreenwichTheatr
02/03/2011
The theatre press gets very excited by the likes of Laura Wade and Anya Reiss who have both had plays performed in recent years while still being teenagers. But such talent isn't anything new.
Shelagh Delaney was 18-years old when she wrote A Taste of Honey. It premiered at Stratford East in 1959 transferring to the Wyndhams in the West End in the same year. It opened on Broadway in 1960 and within two years it had been made into an award winning film.
It is certainly an extremely accomplished piece of writing. Set in Salford in a grotty bedsit it is the story of teenage Jo who lives with her flighty, alcoholic mother. Jo meet a black boy who is about to return to the navy for a six months stint of national service. He leaves Jo with an engagement ring and a much longed for escape route but then she discovers she is pregnant.
Her mother runs off and gets married, again, leaving her to prepare for motherhood with only her gay art student friend Geoffrey to help her.
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