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Taste of Honey
Shelagh Delaney
Play M3 (20s, 1 Black, 30) F2 (17, 40). Composite
setting.
Jo, the teenage heroine who lives in a filthy tenement bedsitter, is
deserted by her nagging peroxided mother, who is unaware that her daughter
is pregnant by a black sailor. Jo's greatest fear is that her illegitimate
baby might be mentally deficient like her own father. To soothe, clean
and cook for her is Geof, an effeminate art student, with whom she makes
a temporary home. Bruised by insensitivity and rejection, the boy and
girl find a very real comfort in each other.
Period 1958
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