A Taste of Honey is a play written by Shelagh Delaney. It was written in the late 1950s when Delaney was only 18 years old. The play is mainly set in a dreary, neglected flat in a rundown area of ...

One of the things Shelagh Delaney was determined to do when she wrote A Taste of Honey was to create an honest play which presented its audience with a realistic portrayal of working class life.

Shelagh Delaney's bittersweet paean to working class ... as beloved and central to the Northern theatrical canon as A Taste of Honey. The challenge is to treat the writing, some of the best ...