A Taste of Honey: 60 Years of Modern Plays

It''s chaotic — a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don''t ask for life, we have it thrust upon us.

Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s.

When her mother, Helen, runs off with a car salesman, feisty teenager Jo takes up with a black sailor who promises to marry her before he heads for the seas, leaving her pregnant and alone. Art student Geoff moves in and assumes the role of surrogate...