A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first
produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company. It was
made into a highly acclaimed film in 1961. The play is about the
adolescent Jo and her relationships with those about her - her
irresponsible, roving mother Helen and her mum's newly acquired drunken
husband, the black sailor who leaves her pregnant and Geoffrey the
homosexual art student who moves in to help with the baby.
It is
also about Jo's unshakeable optimism throughout her trials. This story
of a mother and daughter relationship set in working class Manchester
continues to enthral new generations of readers and audiences. 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 in 1958 by Graham Greene as having "all the freshness of
Mr Osborne's Look Back in Anger and a greater maturity."
A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney
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