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A Taste of Honey

Wed 14 May 25
7.30pm start. £15.00 (£12.00 concessions) Stantonbury Theatre Stantonbury, Milton Keynes MK14 6BN The Play's The Thing Theatre Company presents A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaneys first play written when she was only nineteen. It was originally intended as a novel, but Delaney turned it into a play because she hoped to revitalise British theatre and address social issues that she thought were not being presented. A Taste of Honey comments on, and puts into question, class, race, age of sexual consent, gender, sexual orientation and illegitimacy in mid-twentieth-century Britain. It became known as a “kitchen sink” drama and part of a genre revolutionising British theatre at the time. It was accepted by Joan Littlewood for production by the Theatre Workshop in 1958, then at the height of its powers. It was later made into a highly acclaimed film in 1962 starring Dora Bryan, Murray Melvin and Rita Tushingham... READ MORE>

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