Peter Cox MBE's Blog – November 2011 Archive (1)

Playwright Shelagh Delaney dies

Sad news coming out that one of Britain's most influential women playwrights of the past sixty years has died. 

Her well known play A Taste of Honey played on Broadway and in the West End before being made into an award winning film directed by Tony Richardson with wonderful performances from Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin.

The play and film had a tremendous impact and resonance at the time- a beautiful tender story featuring a young woman falling pregnant, being…

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Added by Peter Cox MBE on November 21, 2011 at 12:10 — 1 Comment

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