Kitchen-Sink Drama
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Kitchen-Sink Drama, expression coined in the British theatre to describe
Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956), Shelagh Delaney's
A Taste of Honey (1958), and other plays. The characters were less affluent than those of the conventional drawing-room drama; they had no servants and were seen doing mundane things such as ironing and washing up. With the decline of the genre the term is now seldom used.
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Young, gifted and back
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 5/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...years, the story of Delaney the feisty teenage dramatist...gleamed. What a freak Shelagh Delaney was. The front! At...hours earlier. "Miss Delaney, what are you prepared...don't know," said Shelagh dismissively, exuding...
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Surprises and classics in new LBT season.
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 8/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...classics by Shakespeare, Alan Ayckbourn, Shelagh Delaney and by the top comedy pairing of Keith Waterhouse...Romeo and Juliet and then a modern classic, Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey. Shelagh wrote the play in the late Fifties when she...
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By the way, I'm not dead
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 1/26/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...wonders why he ever disappeared and asks (below) what happened to the leading playwrights of the Sixties Shelagh Delaney SHELAGH Delaney is perhaps the definitive victim of first-play syndrome, in which a writer fails to match the impact made...
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A Taste of Honey
Newspaper article from: Windy City Times; 5/28/2008; ; 659 words
; THEATER REVIEW A Taste of Honey Playwright: Shelagh Delaney At: Shattered Globe Theatre Company at the Greenhouse...England, and it's 1958? Eighteen-year-old Shelagh Delaney's play premiered only two years after John Osborne...
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Obituary: Penny Tackaberry
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/27/1994; ; 446 words
; ...I FIRST met Penny Tackaberry a long time ago, when my agent Tessa Sayle invited her to join the agency, writes Shelagh Delaney. Tessa put her in charge of the theatre, film and television section and gave her six months to make something of...
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Obituaries: Joan Littlewood
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 9/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...championed new abrasive writers such as Brendan Behan and Shelagh Delaney. A lifelong old-fashioned socialist, she remained...written that herself. Two years later, she took Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey to the Theatre Royal. A play...
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`Honey's' Sweeter; At the Olney, Love Among the Ruined
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/31/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...written by an 18-year-old-which Shelagh Delaney was when she first put pen to paper...suggests. But the fact remains, Delaney turned out a remarkable first work...the language of the slums, and Delaney seemed to be falling right in with...
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What's on in stoke-on-trent and staffordshire
Newspaper article from: Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK); 5/19/2009; 500 words
; ...office on 01270 537333. THEATRE: A Taste Of Honey is Shelagh Delaney's endearing drama which can be seen at the New Vic Theatre in Basford until Saturday, May 23. Shelagh was only 18 when she wrote her hugely successful work...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Inspired by a daughter's bravery; Forty five years after A Taste of Honey, Rita Tushingham is still at the top of her profession, inspired by the bravery of her daughter who has overcome breast cancer. David Charters reports.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 5/9/2006; 700+ words
; ...film was based on the play of the same name written by Shelagh Delaney, a passionate young writer from Salford, who, like...who also directed. Much of it is shot by the canal in Shelagh's native Salford. The film was a huge success on...
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Music fails to enhance this grim slice of life
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/19/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...play the "semi-whore" Helen in Shelagh Delaney's shabby little Salford shocker...productions celebrating the premiere of Delaney's uncompromising play, written...Morrisey's songs were inspired by Delaney's work and her youthful face...
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Shelagh Delaney
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Shelagh Delaney , 1939-, English playwright, b. Salford, Lancashire. Her first play, written when she was only 17, was A Taste of Honey...
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Delaney, Shelagh
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Delaney, Shelagh (1939– ), playwright, is known for A Taste of Honey , written when she was 17. It was presented by Joan...
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On the Stage
Book article from: American Decades
...playwright Brendan Behan's The Hostage was widely discussed in 1960, as were Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey. In the 1960s American theaters discovered British talents ranging from Harold Pinter and Tom...
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Kitchen-Sink Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Kitchen-Sink Drama, expression coined in the British theatre to describe Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956), Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey (1958), and other plays. The characters were less affluent than those of the conventional...
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Theatre Workshop
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...transferred to West End theatres, among them Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow (1956) and The Hostage (1958), Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey (also 1958), Frank Norman and Lionel Bart's musical Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be...
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