Lyttelton Theatre, National, London: A Taste of Honey has taken second place in theatre history to another story, that of its writing. In 1958 Shelagh Delaney, an inexperienced 19-year-old from Salford who had seen Terence Rattigan's Variation on a Theme and thought she "could do better", produced an original, daring play. She sent her script to Joan Littlewood, who added some Theatre Workshop magic, i…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:35AM on February 19, 2014