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...mailed in for criticism by a 19-year-old Lancashire girl. Yet each had all the racy, rowdy, down-to-life vitality that Producer-Director Joan Littlewood is forever seeking. After helping the authors to shape their work, she staged both plays-Brendan Behan's The Hostage and Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey - in her small. 512-seat Theater Royal in the waterfront London slum district called Stratford East. Both won so much praise that they eventually moved from farthingsville to London's moneyed West End. Both are now on Broadway...
...Taste of Honey (by Shelagh Delaney) was written, out of dissatisfaction with seeing flaccid plays, by a 19-year-old Lancashire girl. By the time she was 21 it had run for a year in London's West End, as it deserved to. For a playwright of 19, A Taste of Honey is a most talented piece of work...
Actually a deeper dissatisfaction than trivial plays had inspired it: a dissatisfaction with the shabby world that Shelagh Delaney knew at first hand, and a sense of blockaded lives. It is a dissatisfaction that very often leaps to life through words that have edge and ring true, among people who are disturbed but vital, in scenes where lives come together, or clash, or come apart. An illegitimate young girl lives with her tramp of a mother, who soon enough runs off with a man. The girl herself has a brief affair with a Negro sailor on leave, becomes pregnant...
...Born. To Shelagh Rank Packard, 24, daughter of British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, and Frederick Packard, 28, film producer; a daughter, their first child, first Rank grandchild; in Los Angeles. Name: Susan Mary. Weight...