A Taste of Honey
(Sprache: Englisch)
Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style
Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style
Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style
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Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style
Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style
Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style
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'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.
Autoren-Porträt von Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney was born in Salford, Lancashire. She is most well-known for A Taste of Honey, for which she won the Foyle's New Play Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. She wrote the screenplay for the film version with Tony Richardson and was awarded the British Film Academy Award and the Robert Flaherty Award. Her other screenplays include The White Bus and Charley Bubbles, for which she won the Writers' Guild Award. She has also written for television and radio and has had a collection of short stories published. She died in 2011.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Shelagh Delaney
- 2008, überarb. Aufl., 144 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 20,1 x 13,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Elaine Aston, Glenda Leeming
- Verlag: Methuen
- ISBN-10: 1408106019
- ISBN-13: 9781408106013
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „A Taste of Honey “
'Some of Delaney's themes may feel dated but her writing still glitters dangerously and wittily. A Taste of Honey remains a passionate statement about real people trapped in poverty, deprived of ambition and vulnerable to manipulation by the fickleness of others.' Independent, (19 November 2008) 'Brawling, boozing, teenage pregnancy and fractured families: Shelagh Delaney's benchmark drama, first staged by Joan Littlewood in London in 1958, has lost none of its relevance 50 years on... The quirkiness and passion of Delaney's young voice still rings out... It remains passionate and pungent.' The Times, (19 November 2008) 'Its raw eloquence, sometimes almost lyrical, its tough, swaggering humour...its frank brutality and unblinking humanity.' Sunday Times, (23 November 2008)
Pressezitat
'Some of Delaney's themes may feel dated but her writing still glitters dangerously and wittily. A Taste of Honey remains a passionate statement about real people trapped in poverty, deprived of ambition and vulnerable to manipulation by the fickleness of others.' Independent, (19 November 2008)
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