A Taste of Honey: Interview with the cast and director

Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was nineteen, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When her mother Helen runs off with a car salesman, feisty teenager Jo takes up with a black sailor who promises to marry her, before he heads for the seas, leaving her pregnant and alone. Art student Geoff moves in and assumes the role of surrogate parent until, misguidedly, he sends for Helen and their unconventional setup unravels. In this film Lesley Sharp, Kate O'Flynn and Bijan Sheibani discuss the play and the central relationship between in the play between Jo and Helen.