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A Taste of Honey - 60 Years of Modern Plays (Hardcover)
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A Taste of Honey - 60 Years of Modern Plays (Hardcover)
Series: Modern Plays
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Loot Price R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We
don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh
Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great
defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When her mother,
Helen, runs off with a car salesman, feisty teenager Jo takes up
with a black sailor who promises to marry her before he heads for
the seas, leaving her pregnant and alone. Art student Geoff moves
in and assumes the role of surrogate parent until misguidedly, he
sends for Helen and their unconventional setup unravels. A Taste of
Honey offers an explosive celebration of the vulnerabilities and
strengths of the female spirit in a deprived world. Bursting with
energy, this exhilarating and angry depiction of harsh,
working-class life in post-war Salford is shot through with love
and humour, and infused with jazz. The play was first presented by
Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford, London, on 27 May
1958. It was published by Methuen Drama in 1959, beginning their
Modern Plays series. Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Plays series
began in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of
Honey and has grown over six decades to now include more than 1000
plays by some of the best writers from around the world. This new
special edition hardback of A Taste of Honey was published to
celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays in 2019, chosen
by a public vote and features a brand new foreword by Celia
Brayfield.
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