Tuesday, December 31, 2019

January: A taste of Honey

Hello Ladies

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2020!  I hope you all had a very happy Festive Period and that this year will be good to you.  Personally I'm very happy to see the back of 2019!  THANK YOU for putting up with the cancellations and changes of plan.  

Part of the fall out of 2019 continues, in that I am organising regular trips to the UK to see my Mum, and this will unfortunately affect some of our dates.  I have not filled in the whole year, but here are the dates that I can do in 2020 so far ... unfortunately this does mean that it will not always be the first Wednesday of the month, and may still be subject to change - I hope that you can bear with me:

8th January
5th February
4th March
8th April ** 2nd Weds
6th May *
3rd June *

* Possibly might change


I am sorry about having to cancel December, and I am holding the missed play over until December 2020 as it is an ideal Christmas play.  

Therefore we are starting 2020 off with a play that I have 'oven ready' (groan ... and apologies) although it's not a bright and fun start to the year. However, it should be good.  We have read Shelagh Delaney before, The Memory of Water, which we greatly enjoyed.


A Taste of Honey is Shelagh Delaney's first play, written when she was 19. It was initially intended as a novel, but she turned it into a play because she hoped to revitalise British theatre and to address social issues that she felt were not being presented. 

The play was first produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and was premiered at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, a small fringe theatre in London, on 27 May 1958, and was adapted into a film in 1961 starring Rita Tusshingham and Dora Bryan.

A Taste of Honey is set in Salford in North West England in the 1950s. Jo, a seventeen-year-old working class girl, lives with her mother, Helen, who leaves Jo alone in their new flat after she begins a relationship with Peter, a rich lover who is younger than her. At the same time Jo begins a romantic relationship with Jimmy, a black sailor. 


Characters
  • Helen: A hardened, working class single mother and alcoholic.
  • Josephine:  Helen's teenage daughter, known as 'Jo', raised solely by Helen.
  • Peter: Helen's younger, wealthy boyfriend from London.
  • The Boy: Also known as Jimmy, a black sailor. 
  • Geoffrey: An art student in his early twenties who becomes Jo's roommate and friend.





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