A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney

I saw this several years ago at the theatre and found it so interesting (weak, I know, but ‘enjoyable’ simply isn’t the right word) that I had to grab a paper copy as soon as I saw it available. Now, fifty years after it was written, interest in this slip of a play is growing as commentators recall how the young playwright – only eighteen at the time of writing – created a piece of theatre that could seem to warrant inclusion in the ‘Angry Young Men’ genre of the fifties, but was actually something much more nuanced and realistic. "The Basic Plot" A difficult mother/daughter relationship is ... more