Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution by Selina Todd
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Overview: Ground-breaking, firebrand playwright who changed our cultural and social landscape and put working-class lives centre stage.
On 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus driver’s daughter from Salford, the play would blow Britain open and expose a deeply polarised society. It would also make its young author a star.
As Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was telling people they had ‘never had it so good’, A Taste of Honey illuminated the lives of the millions left to languish in Britain’s slums. Delaney’s strong female characters – teenager Jo and her single mother, Helen – asserted that working-class women wanted more than suburban housewifery. The play provoked a barrage of press and political criticism, but was embraced by those whose lives had now been placed centre stage.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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