Delaney, Shelagh. A Taste of Honey. Methuen, 1959.
prelims
Joan Littlewood
Standard Name: Littlewood, Joan
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Sarah Kane | At school, SK
directed plays by Shakespeare
, as well as Joan Littlewood
's musical Oh, What a Lovely War. She took a BA degree in drama at Bristol University
(first class honours), and... |
| Performance of text | Shelagh Delaney | SD
's first play, A Taste of Honey, opened at the Theatre Royal
, Stratford East, in London's East End, produced by Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Workshop
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 120 |
| Performance of text | Ruth Fainlight | All Citizens are Soldiers had been produced in London two years before this at Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Royal, Stratford East
, in East London. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. under Sillitoe |
| Author summary | Shelagh Delaney | In the late 1950s Shelagh Delaney
enjoyed a shortlived burst of success when her first play, A Taste of Honey, was produced by Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Workshop
. She was then considered one... |
| Publishing | Shelagh Delaney | SD
decided to submit her script to Joan Littlewood
after reading a newspaper report about a conflict between Littlewood's Theatre Workshop
and the Lord Chamberlain. Her script was accepted immediately by Theatre Workshop “Meeting Shelagh Delaney”. Times, 2 Feb. 1959, p. 12. 12 |
| Textual Production | Dodie Smith | DS
found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne
and even admired Shelagh Delaney
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pam Gems | She flings down the gauntlet by demanding of contemporary commitment plays: Why are they always so awful? So jejune?Her first answer is to find something improper about the well-heeled—that is, anyone who has... |
Timeline
17 December 1884: The Theatre Royal, Stratford, East London,...
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17 December 1884
The Theatre Royal
, Stratford, East London, opened with its manager Charles Dillon
in the lead role.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
287
Theatre Royal, Stratford. http://www.stratfordeast.com/.
2 February 1953: Theatre Workshop (founded in 1945 in the...
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2 February 1953
Theatre Workshop
(founded in 1945 in the north of England) opened at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East
(in the East End of London), under the direction of Joan Littlewood
.
Theatre Royal, Stratford. http://www.stratfordeast.com/.
Ezard, John, and Michael Billington. “Obituary: Joan Littlewood”. Guardian Unlimited, 23 Sept. 2002.
February 1959: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical...
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February 1959
Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical about gangsters, molls, and tarts, was created by formerly criminal writer Frank Norman
, composer Lionel Bart
, and the company at Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Royal, Stratford East
.
“Fings Ain’t Wot They Used To Be”. The Guide to Musical Theatre.
March 1963: The musical Oh What a Lovely War opened at...
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March 1963
The musical Oh What a Lovely War opened at Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Royal, Stratford East
. It transferred to Wyndham's
in the West End on 29 June, and went on to become a landmark hit.
“Oh! What a Lovely War”. The Guide to Musical Theatre.
September 1964: Liverpool city council provided a grant for...
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September 1964
Liverpool city council provided a grant for the founding of the Everyman Theatre
, which became a centre for popular culture and radical play-writing.
Hickling, Alfred. “’You could be watching an exciting new musical while sitting on a bag of cement’”. The Guardian, 8 Sept. 2004, pp. G16 - G17.
G16
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