A Taste of Honey
The final chapter of a triumphant season…
A Taste of Honey
By Shelagh Delaney
Directed by Chris Wright
The Lowry, Wed 14 – Sat 24 November 2007
Press Night: Wed 14 November, 7.45pm
The Lowry’s successful Salford season will end in style with Shelagh Delaney’s modern classic, A Taste of Honey, from Wed 14 – Sat 24 November. This will be the last of four community productions that have been produced by The Lowry and performed by a huge range of people from across the city.
The Salford season began in October, with Innit theMusical selling out the majority of its 10 shows. Seats were also hard to come by for the tense theatrical adaptation of Richard MacSween’s teenage novel, Victory Street and LS Lowry’s favourite play, SixCharacters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello. The plays were selected to be part of the Salford season because of their relation to the culture and history of the city and none fitted the criteria better than the groundbreaking Salford favourite, A Taste of Honey, which sold out weeks ahead of its run.
Salford-born Shelagh Delaney was just nineteen when she wrote A Taste of Honey in 1958 and it still packs a powerful punch today. Set in a shabby Salford maisonette, we follow the lives and loves of long-suffering daughter Jo and her reluctant mother Helen. The story confronts a range of social taboos, teenage pregnancy, race and sexuality from a female point of view. The play and its BAFTA award-winning film adaptation were hugely influential in changing the public's attitude towards art and society.
Posted on Wednesday, 31 October 2007 under Press