Wrtitten by Shelagh Delaney at the age of nineteen, A Taste of Honey was a sensational theatrical succes when first produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in London in 1958 and was made into a film in 1961. The play is about the adolescent Jo and her relationships with those about her - her irresponsible, roving mother and newly acquired drunkard husband, the black sailor who leaves her pregnant and the homosexual art student who moves in to help with the baby - and her unshakeable optimism throughout. Now established as a modern classic, this comic yet poignant story of a mother-daughter relationship in working-class Manchester continues to enthrall new readers. 'Miss Delaney brings real people on to her stage... she is busy recording the wonder of life as she lives it'. Kenneth Tynan, Observer
