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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A talented cast of sixth formers from Magdalen College School really impress in their 80 minute...
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Artistic director at Makeshift Wings, Amy Bethan Evans, has taken it upon herself to help give a...
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“…Simon Reade’s exquisite adaption and direction brings out the full human value of a life so carelessly squandered for ‘an example’. …Everything about this production is so achingly perfect. It is bravura storytelling and consummate acting with depth, sensitivity, emotion and a highly developed sense of moral outrage.”
Read More“…The play covers a lot of ground in its one act, all of which adds to the intensity of mood we might expect with a punk theme and director, Rosie Mullin, has done a good in keeping the disparate themes from becoming a jumble…This is an engaging and ambitious play, ideally suited to the Wardrobe Theatre and will help cement the venue’s growing reputation as a place for imaginative theatre…”
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“…Certainly there were moments of real drama, particularly during the edgy discussion between the young soldiers as to whether or not to leave their posts in the face of impending doom, and when agonising over the fate of a captured German soldier. Suddenly we had insight into why choristers could be termed ‘wild men’…”
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