A Taste Of Honey

This volume includes a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of the various interpretations and photographs from stage productions The stage play was awarded the Foyle's New Play Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award The screenplay for the film version was awarded the British Film Academy award and the Robert Flaherty Award The play is a set text on the AQA Drama, EDEXCEL Drama and OCR Drama lists for 2007/8 50 years after first publication, the annual sales for A Taste of Honey are in excess of 1,000 copies

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