| A Taste of Honey Revised Edition Contributor(s): Delaney, Shelagh (Author), Leeming, Glenda (Editor), Aston, Elaine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1408106019 ISBN-13: 9781408106013 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: This play is about the adolescent Jo and her relationships with those around her--her irresponsible, roving mother Helen; her mother'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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Methuen Drama Student Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.25 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: '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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aston, Elaine: - ELAINE ASTON is Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University, UK where she teaches and researches feminist theatre, theory and performance, a field in which she is widely published. Her authored studies include An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre (1994); Caryl Churchill (1997/ 2001); Feminist Theatre Practice (1999) and Feminist Views on the English Stage (2003). She has co-edited four volumes of plays by women and, with Janelle Reinelt, co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights (2000). Megson, Chris: - CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays (2010); his book on The Seventies, for 'Methuen's Decades of Modern British Playwrighting' series, is forthcoming in 2012. He has published widely on British theatre culture since 1968 and documentary/Tribunal theatre. |