Tastes of Honey: Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution, a talk by Selina Todd.

In 1958, Shelagh Delaney, a working-class teenager from Salford, became famous when her debut play, A Taste of Honey, was staged in London. Focused on a single mother and her daughter, the play tackled taboo subjects like homosexuality and mixed race relationships. Against the contemptuous predictions of London’s critics, it became a boxoffice sellout. Audiences flocked to see - in the words of one man - ‘people like us’ on stage. A Taste of Honey has been performed across the world ever since.
In this talk, Delaney’s biographer, the historian Selina Todd, explores the impact of A Taste of Honey, what happened next to Shelagh Delaney, and what her story tells us about class, culture and women’s lives in modern Britain. Todd’s biography Tastes of Honey: Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution was the Observer Book of the Week and a Guardian Book of the Month and is described by Ken Loach as ‘brilliant.’
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