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...Taste of Honey. Shelagh Delaney, Britain's angry young ma'am, tells a story of the Lancashire slums with concussive humor, dramatic drive, and a melancholy flair for the poetry of wasted lives...
...bitter drawn from that always-sputtering bung of discontent, the British working class. In the last three years several interesting English movies and two magnificent ones (Room at the Top, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) have been tapped from the same source. This picture, based on a play by Shelagh Delaney, a Lancashire bus driver's daughter who was 18 when she wrote it, is as good as the best. In her first film script, touched up by Director Tony Richardson, the angry young ma'am displays dramatic drive, concussive humor, a barmaid's ear for dialogue...
...still scheduled for the weekend. Despite the underlying grimness, the whole affair took on a sort of gaiety. Among the latest eager ban-the-bombers were Angry Young Man John Osborne ("I shall be happy to go to gaol for six months"), Actresses Wendy Hiller and Vanessa Redgrave, Playwright Shelagh Delaney (Taste of Honey), Jazz Singer George Melly, Poet
...Herbert Read. As the list of celebrities grew to cocktail-party proportions, the Spectator observed wryly that "to spend a month in prison in the company of Reverend Michael Scott-and soon perhaps of Mr. John Osborne and Miss Shelagh Delaney-would make many of the campaign's humbler supporters feel they can die happy...
...Broadway While the new shows are already trying out in the sticks, some of the better old ones have managed to stick through the summer. Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues to sail along with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little...