A Taste of Honey review – Shelagh Delaney’s grenade explodes again
‘Unbelievably relevant’: what can the explosive 1958 play A Taste of Honey tell us today?
December 2019
A Taste of Honey review – Shelagh Delaney’s debut gets jazzed up
A Taste of Honey review – sweet songs and sour love
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
September 2019
From the Guardian archive
Shelagh Delaney: playwright on probation - archive, 1960
20 September 1960 Promoting her latest play, The Lion in Love, Delaney says ‘I would rather write a terrible play than a mediocre one’
August 2019
Observer book of the week
Tastes of Honey by Selina Todd review – illuminating life of Shelagh Delaney
Historian Selina Todd makes an unassailable case for the Salford writer’s place in British theatre history
February 2019
From the Guardian archive
Albert Finney talks about directing new film, Charlie Bubbles - archive, 1969
12 February 1969 While a huge success in America and a critical success in the UK, the film is still not going out on general release
September 2018
British cinema’s exclusion of the young, skint and state educated is a national shame
Danny Leigh
The 1963 arrival of Billy Liar looked like the beginnings of a more democratic, working-class film industry. So why are we still stuck with polite social realism and sniggery classism?
April 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 books about Manchester
From Friedrich Engels and Mrs Gaskell to WG Sebald and Anthony Burgess, these are some great books about the great city in ‘the south of the north’
December 2014
2014 in review
Chris Wiegand’s top 10 stage shows of 2014
A comedy detective, Shakespeare in pointe shoes and audiences turned into actors … Guardian Stage editor Chris Wiegand picks his highlights
May 2014
Gwen Taylor: how Shelagh Delaney gave me my first taste of success
At the fledgling Crucible theatre in Sheffield I played a pig woman, an ingenue (aged 32) and Jo in A Taste of Honey
April 2014
A Taste of Honey review – 'Rebecca Ryan's Jo keeps the drama alive'
Shameless's Rebecca Ryan takes on Shelagh Delaney – twice
March 2014
Morrissey or Shelagh Delaney? – quiz
This week's new theatre
This week's new theatre
February 2014
Kate O'Flynn: 'You have absolutely no perspective after drama school'
An August Bank Holiday Lark; Translations; A Taste of Honey – review
A Taste of Honey review: 'tough, tenacious and with an emotional bite'
Observer New Review Q&A
Lesley Sharp interview: 'When I hear people talking about their families it's not something I totally understand'