From the web site: http://www.pearltheatre.org/production/a-taste-of-honey/
In 1959 at age 18, playwright Shelagh Delaney rocked the theatre world with a play that both defined and defied her generation. A Taste of Honey is the clever, passionate, and poignant story of a young woman facing an uncertain future in a hostile world—and learning to trust that love, in its every heartbreaking and messy form, will see her through.
“Delaney was only 18 when she wrote this story of a complex mother-daughter relationship challenged and defined by a world of poverty, gender inequality, racism, and sexual identity. The play asks deep questions, but does so with humor and optimism. Delaney mixes hyper-realistic details of life in England’s poorest industrial towns in the late 1950s with a dose of meta-theatrical emotional exploration through music—the play incorporates a live jazz band that the actors are (sort of) aware of.
It’s a tender story of a young woman trying to engage with a much larger and more complex world than the one she’s grown up in—in many ways, far more than Osborne’s Look Back in Anger of the same time period, Delaney anticipates the social questions of the 1960s and sets her heroine on the path to answer them”
– From Kate Farrington, Director of Education and Dramaturgy
by SHELAGH DELANEY
directed by AUSTIN PENDLETON
Rebekah Brockman
John Evans Reese
Rachel Botchan
Bradford Cover
Ade Otukoya
Review: http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/theater-reviews/2016/09/30/theater-review---a-taste-of-honey-.html
