Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only 19.

A Taste of Honey (1961), directed by Tony Richardson, is a key example in this cinema of the Angry Young Men, as it was alternately called. It was initially intended as a novel, but she turned it into a play because she hoped to revitalise British theatre and to address social issues that she felt were not being presented. Audience Reviews for A Taste of Honey Aug 18, 2012 Rita Tushingham arrived as an underdog star with "A Taste of Honey," an early Tony Richardson film about an adrift teen girl.
• A Taste of Honey is part of the Woodfall Films season at BFI Southbank, London, this month. Summaries A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a …

But the film was way ahead of its time and still looks modern today. A Taste of Honey and the other British films from the beginning of the sixties with which Richardson is linked were a significant part of a cultural wave that would place the northern working class at the center of British life for the first time in history. A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. Selina Todd explains how it came to be performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, and what was so original about its portrayal of a working-class mother and daughter. The A Taste of Honey Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.