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- A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961. Set in Salford in North West England, it tells the story of Jo, a working class schoolgirl, and her mother, Helen, who is presented as tarty, foul mouthed and promiscuous.
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A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961.
- Shelagh Delaney
- 1959
It was originally an instrumental track (or recurring theme) written for the 1960 Broadway version of the 1958 British play A Taste of Honey which was also made into the film of the same name in 1961. The original and a later recording by Herb Alpert in 1965 earned the song four Grammy Awards.
A Taste of Honey is a 1961 British New Wave drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens and Murray Melvin. It is an adaptation of the 1958 play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney .
Sep 14, 2021 · A Taste of Honey tells the story of Jo (played in the film version by Rita Tushingham), a 17-year-old white teenager, abandoned by her alcoholic mother (Dora Bryan) and cruel stepfather (Robert Stephens), and pregnant from a fling with Black sailor Jimmy (Paul Danquah).
Mar 14, 2008 · A favourite song of Paul McCartney’s, ‘A Taste Of Honey’ was originally the theme tune for the 1961 film version of Shelagh Delaney’s play of the same name, starring Rita Tushingham. ‘A Taste Of Honey’ had previously been recorded by a number of artists, mostly in instrumental versions.
A Taste of Honey: Directed by Tony Richardson. With Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin. A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
A Taste of Honey, British film, released in 1961, that is often cited as a classic example of the socially conscious and realistic Angry Young Man dramas that appeared in Britain in the post-World War II era.
