A Taste of Honey
Taste of Honey, A Author: Shelagh Delaney
First Performance: 1958, London
Published: 1959
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Flat in Salford, 1950s
Cast: 3m, 2f
Helen, a peroxide-blonde ‘semi-whore’, has a tense relationship with her teenage daughter Josephine (Jo). When Helen's boyfriend Peter, a used-car salesman ten years younger than her, proposes to her, she leaves Jo alone in their seedy northern bedsit. Jo consoles herself with a black naval rating, Jimmy, whom she lets stay over Christmas, and becomes pregnant. When Jimmy too abandons her, she finds a job, and some months later meets Geoff, an effeminate art student. Although he is a homosexual, he and Jo develop a close relationship, and he even makes a crib for her expected baby. Misguidedly, he sends for Helen, but she is dragged away by the angry...
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