Performance

VenueTheatre Royal
Other spaces: Studio, Stage 2
TownNorwich
CountyNorfolk
From12th November 2019
To16th November 2019
What is currently on at Theatre Royal (V72)

A Taste of Honey

A Taste of HoneyT049728877
Jo hasn't had it easy, growing up with a volatile, alcoholic mother, moving from one bed-sit to another. Until Jo meets Jimmie, a black sailor, who she spends the night with while her mum is gallivanting with a younger man. Jo finds out she is pregnant, and with her mother abandoning her, seeks solace with a homosexual friend, Geoffrey, who becomes a leading father figure to Jo. But when Jo's mother reappears, the life that she has so carefully put together for herself starts to fall away again. A Taste of Honey was Shelagh Delaney's first play written when she was 19 years old. The first London production in 1958, won her great critical acclaim and popular success. Two years later Delaney received the Drama Critics' Circle Award for the plays New York City production. It was made into a notable film in 1961. A Taste of Honey was voted joint 50th of the National Theatre's top 100 plays of the millennium.
Author Shelagh Delaney


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Company

Producer National Theatre
Director Bijan Sheibani
Design Hildegard Bechtler
Sound Ian Dickinson (for Autograph)
Music Paul Englishby
Director Aline David (movement director)
Performer Jodie Prenger (Helen)
Performer Liam Bessell (Understudy Peter / Geof)
Performer Katy Clayton (Understudy Jo)
Performer Gemma Dobson (Jo)
Performer Claire Eden (Understudy Helen)
Performer Durone Stokes (Jimmie)
Performer Stuart Thompson (Geof)
Performer Tom Varey (Peter)
Performer Marcel White (Understudy Jimmie)
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