A Taste of Honey
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She caused outrage as a wide-eyed teen in her very first film. As the actor returns in a spooky Agatha Christie, she relives life as a 60s icon – and the taunts she endured in the street
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4 out of 5 stars.Jodie Prenger sings her heart out in an atmospheric revival of Shelagh Delaney’s classic play about an unlucky-in-love mother and daughter
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Shelagh Delaney put working-class women centre-stage for the first time. This thoughtful book argues for the originality and importance of the Salford playwright
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A Taste of Honey's Kate O'Flynn has become a powerful stage presence with her line in outspoken northerners. The actor talks to Maddy Costa about going to extremes
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Shelagh Delaney was 19 when A Taste of Honey brought her fame – but she never equalled its success. Now, two years after her death, it is to be revived, writes Rachel Cooke
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Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was just 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. You can win a pair of top price tickets to the latest production at the National Theatre, starring Lesley Sharp and Kate O'Flynn
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Our roundup of the performances you've seen and what you thought of them
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4 out of 5 stars.
Shelagh Delaney's extraordinary debut play is brilliant and bleak in its view of life experiences in working-class Salford, writes Mark Fisher
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3 out of 5 stars.
A superb central performance elevates this slightly-too-tasteful revival of Shelagh Delaney's 1958 play, writes Michael Billington
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Lyn Gardner: The Sheffield revival of A Taste of Honey should help us better remember an unfairly neglected playwright – but here's plenty of footage to be going on with
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Letters: Until then playwrights tried to evade the censor's veto by resorting to subterfuge and innuendo
Rita Tushingham: ‘Can you imagine walking around thinking: Ooh, I’m an icon?’