{"product_id":"a-taste-of-honey-60-years-of-modern-plays","title":"A Taste of Honey: 60 Years of Modern Plays","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIt'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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Taste of Honey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 parent until misguidedly, he sends for Helen and their unconventional setup unravels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Taste of Honey\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoffers an explosive celebration of the vulnerabilities and strengths of the female spirit in a deprived world. Bursting with energy, this exhilarating and angry depiction of harsh, working-class life in post-war Salford is shot through with love and humour, and infused with jazz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe play was first presented by Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford, London, on 27 May 1958. It was published by Methuen Drama in 1959, beginning their Modern Plays series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMethuen Drama's iconic Modern Plays series began in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Taste of Honey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and has grown over six decades to now include more than 1000 plays by some of the best writers from around the world. This new special edition hardback of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Taste of Honey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was published to celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays in 2019, chosen by a public vote and features a brand new foreword by Celia Brayfield.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Shelagh Delaney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52045041631553,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3087\/9041\/files\/23_99178e62-1886-41e1-b458-1cf9975daa16.webp?v=1785587553","url":"https:\/\/www.bookemporium.pk\/products\/a-taste-of-honey-60-years-of-modern-plays","provider":"The Book Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}