It was a time when the pill was unavailable and homosexuality was illegal. As Shelagh Delaney's sparky story of a Salford single mother and her pregnant teenage daughter returns, can it really speak to our era? It was after her very first trip to the theatre that 19-year-old Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey, hammered out on a borrowed typewriter after deciding she could do better than the play she had seen on a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM on March 11, 2024