Author: Michael Hasted

A TASTE OF HONEY at the Everyman Cheltenham

When it first appeared in 1958 A Taste of Honey was a sensation. Shelagh Delaney was hailed as a wunderkind and the Zeitgeist was perfectly captured. The play arrived hot on the heels of the Look Back in Anger and was instrumental in the kitchen-sink achieving a place in history.

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UNDER MILK WOOD at the Everyman Cheltenham

Under Milk Wood is a piece I am particularly fond of and I have seen many productions. The fact that it was written as a radio play is its strength and its weakness. How do you present thirty-odd characters in dozens of different locations on stage? How do you portray a sleepy Welsh village and the myriad souls (some literally) who live there? As we all know, in radio drama the scenery and costumes are always excellent because we conjure them up in our imagination and that is the key to a stage production – keep it simple and conjure up Llareggub in the mind’s eye.

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BENEATH THE ALBION SKY at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham

“Very simply, it is the story of the walk told by its perpetrator Paul. It recalls his experiences, both real and imagined, and throws in a lot of interesting facts to keep the pot boiling…I like a bit of history and I like good theatre and Beneath the Albion Sky delivered both in an entertaining and informative way…it was really good stuff which I enjoyed a lot.”

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