‘Unbelievably relevant’: what can the explosive 1958 play A Taste of Honey tell us today?
It was a time when the pill was unavailable and homosexuality was illegal. As Shelagh Delaney’s sparky story of a Salford single mother and her pregnant teenage daughter returns, can it really speak to our era?
October 2021
Rita Tushingham: ‘Can you imagine walking around thinking: Ooh, I’m an icon?’
The star of A Taste of Honey reflects on her 60-year career, not standing for Oliver Reed’s ‘games’ and swinging London as depicted in her new film Last Night in Soho
January 2020
Rita Tushingham on life after A Taste of Honey: 'It was a shock when the 60s ended'
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
December 2019
A Taste of Honey review – sweet songs and sour love
Jodie Prenger sings her heart out in an atmospheric revival of Shelagh Delaney’s classic play about an unlucky-in-love mother and daughter
October 2019
Tastes of Honey by Selina Todd review – Shelagh take a bow
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
April 2014
A Taste of Honey review – 'Rebecca Ryan's Jo keeps the drama alive'
Shameless's Rebecca Ryan takes on Shelagh Delaney – twice
February 2014
Kate O'Flynn: 'You have absolutely no perspective after drama school'
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
A Taste of Honey review: 'tough, tenacious and with an emotional bite'
This revival of Shelagh Delaney's portrait of sexuality, working-class life and mothers and daughters in the 1950s has the same emotional bite as the original, writes Michael Billington
Observer New Review Q&A
Lesley Sharp interview: 'When I hear people talking about their families it's not something I totally understand'
This week's new theatre
A Taste Of Honey, Jane Eyre, 1984: what to see at the theatre this week
Kenneth Tynan at the Observer
Kenneth Tynan on A Taste of Honey
January 2014
Shelagh Delaney: the return of Britain's angry young woman
EXPIRED Win a pair of tickets to see A Taste of Honey at the National Theatre
January 2013
Stage reviews by readers
Stage reader review roundup: your take on A Taste of Honey, and Di and Viv and Rose
A Taste of Honey – review
October 2012
A Taste of Honey – review
Theatre blog
Shelagh Delaney: a video tribute
November 2011
Taste of Honey led to end of gay ban
Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey writer, dies aged 71
