Shelagh Delaney - A Taste of Honey: Classic or Dud?

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"We're so decent we're almost dead."

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love this, I wish people really spoke like Shelagh Delaney dialogue.

― Nicole, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Inspired quite a few Mozzisims

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Understatement, Hanle y!

Shelagh Delaney was also about 17 or 18 when the play premiered in the West End. There was something a lot more human about this play than, say, Joe Orton's stuff.

― suzy, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

absolute stone cold classic.

― chris, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I loved it so much at 16 that me and my friend E did an excerpt for O level drama. She got to mooch around in stripey pyjamas as Jo, while I got to wear her grandma's turquoise crimplene suit playing Dora-Bryan-as-mother. Badly. By A level I'd moved on to hamfisted extracts from Genet's The Maids and E had run away to Edinburgh to mooch around in stripey pyjamas with her undernourished boyfriend, and I still think she got the better deal.

― Ellie, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"my pale pajama'd lover"

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

dirty wankers. i hope u all die

― steve, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't like the look of that.

― chris, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How could anyone dud this? Whatever happened to Shelagh Delaney though? The last thing that I know of, she scripted 'Dance with a Stranger' (about the last woman to be hanged in the UK?). And that was 1982! The only thing I can find is that she is currently patron of the Ambassador cinema in Salford.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is what happens when you become a Smiths fan while pursuing other interests -- you don't automatically scrounge up all of Moz's obsessions for you own. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

I think dat de book was safe like yeah but not all that u get me? Anyways it did kinda like dag on a bit don't yah tink so? i say it was just there like. Ok.

― May Mwanje, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

worst play i have ever read

― Leonardo di Vinci, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three weeks pass...

Please, Would someone help me find more information about Shelagh Delaney and "A Taste of Honey" -I am a Brasilian actress interested in more info. Thanks for the help.

― aymara limma, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight years pass...

ee miss this and i'll give you such a bloody good 'idin'.

bbc4 ten p.m. tonight.

Shelagh Delaney's Salford (1960)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/episode/b00ttq49_640_360.jpg

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1284964/index.html

― jed_, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

"I dreamt about you last night - fell out of bed twice!"

― jed_, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)

Amazing documentary - directed by Ken Russell!

― Stevie T, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

damn! i thought this was much longer, i just started getting into it before it ended ;_;

nevertheless, it was great. those scenes of the salford streets! amazing!

― jed_, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

Oh man, I saw your tip and said I was going to tape it, then plain forgot. It'll get repeated though, right?

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

iplayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ttq49/Monitor_Shelagh_Delaneys_Salford/

and i dare say it will be on bbc four again this week.

― jed_, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

wish i could see this -- 'taste of honey' is my favorite film ever by some distance.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 00:17 (fifteen years ago)

I've only seen AToH once, and think it's kinda sad Murray Melvin got typecast as reptilian clergymen after.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 01:29 (fifteen years ago)

favourite film EVER ?!

(I like it a lot too.)

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:58 (fifteen years ago)

the earlier programme on the North in 1960 seemed quite good also

Delaney's programme was a bit short but she proved an utterly compelling screen presence who provoked thoughts about for instance accent and class, and made me wonder why someone so bold and extroverted had such a faint subsequent career (I think I'd assumed she was shyer than this). Also, though the connection is so obvious as to risk circularity, as an interviewee she did seem like a proto-Morrissey: the flamboyance, the ego-powered mix of camp and cavalier.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 10:01 (fifteen years ago)

(I think I'd assumed she was shyer than this)

I saw the last 10 mins or so, but her shyness did come over, funnily enough. She seemed very secure in the arena and area she was describing.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 10:15 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5007247309_72deedf9f2.jpg

― the pinefox, Monday, 20 September 2010 09:06 (fifteen years ago)

Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life

― Mark G, Monday, 20 September 2010 10:58 (fifteen years ago)

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