Taste Of Honey Methuen Student Edi

Taste Of Honey : Methuen Student Edi
ISBN: 9781408106013
Publication Date: 1 October 2008

A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1958. Now established as a modern classic, this comic and poignant play, by a then nineteen-year-old working-class Lancashire girl, was praised at its London premiere by Graham Greene as having 'all the freshness of Mr Osborne's Look Back in Anger and a greater maturity'. It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1962.
The play is about the adolescent Jo and her relationships with her irresponsible mum, Helen, the Nigerian sailor who leaves Jo pregnant and Geoffrey, the homosexual art student who moves in to help Jo with the baby. It is also about Jo's unshakeable optimism throughout her trials. This story of a mother and daughter relationship (imitated in many other modern British plays since), set in working-class Manchester, continues to engage new generations of audiences.
This student edition, revised for the fiftieth anniversary of A Taste of Honey, also features an essay by Elaine Aston looking back at the impact of the play and assessing its importance today.