Shelagh Delaney: a poem set to jazz
In 1958 Shelagh Delaney sent her first play, A Taste of Honey, to theatre director Joan Littlewood – along with a covering letter that at one point describes her ‘enraptured frustration at the thought of what I’m going to do’. Despite its beguiling self-deprecation, she had already written for the Salford Players and had been … Continue reading Shelagh Delaney: a poem set to jazz