Shelagh Delaney’s play “A Taste of Honey” was first produced by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop in London in 1958. In this interview, recorded in London in May 2016, theater scholar Kate Dorney discusses the groundbreaking production and its enduring influence.
In this interview excerpt, playwright Shelagh Delaney discusses growing up in Salford, England, and writing her hit play “A Taste of Honey” at the age of eighteen. The interview aired in 1960 on the television series “Close-Up.”
