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Early life

Sheila Mary Delaney was born on 25 November 1938 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire to Irish-born bus inspector, Joseph, and Salford-born Elsie Tremlow.[2][5][1] She later changed the spelling of her first name to Shelagh to sound more Irish before the premiere of her first play.[1][6] She failed the eleven-plus exam and attended Broughton Secondary Modern school before transferring at the age of 15 to Pendleton High School, where she gained five O-levels.[7]

Career

A Taste of Honey play

Delaney wrote her first play in ten days, after seeing Terence Rattigan's Variation on a Theme (some sources say it was after seeing Waiting for Godot),[8] at the Opera House, Manchester[9] during its pre–West End tour.[10][11] Delaney felt she could do better than Rattigan, partly because she felt "Variation..." showed "insensitivity in the way Rattigan portrayed homosexuals".[12] Her play A Taste of Honey was accepted by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop.[13] "Quite apart from its meaty content, we believe we have found a real dramatist", Gerry Raffles of Theatre Workshop said at the time.[14] In the production's programme Delaney was described as "the antithesis of London's 'angry young men'.

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  • ^Harding, John. While unpacking, Helen discovers drawings Jo has made; Helen both compliments and insults the self-portraits, encouraging her daughter to go to art school. Jo is pregnant, and Jimmie has not returned; neither has Helen. Jo says she is neither happy nor sad to see her mother go.

    Act Two begins several months later in the flat.

    "Angry young woman". Sweetly Sings Delaney. ISBN .

  • ^Aston, Elaine; Reinelt, Janelle G., eds. eNotes.
  • ^"The Afternoon Play: Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, BBC Radio 4". ISBN .
  • ^Cooke, Rachel (25 January 2014). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    The Making of Theatrical Reputations. "Taste of Honey, A (1961)". Retrieved 10 June 2014.

  • ^ abKellaway, Kate (25 August 2019). She sings a few lyrics from a nursery rhyme Geoffrey earlier recited. University of Iowa Press. Geoffrey tries to reassure her that it will be okay.

    shelagh delaney biography summary of winston

    Queen's Theatre. Jo threatens to have Helen locked up in a mental institution if she is seriously planning to marry again.

    In Act One, Scene Two, Jo and her boyfriend, Jimmie, a Black sailor, flirt on the street outside the flat. "Tastes of Honey by Selina Todd review – illuminating life of Shelagh Delaney".

    Delaney wrote several radio plays, including Tell Me a Film (2003), Country Life (2004)[5] and its sequel Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, which was broadcast in The Afternoon Play slot on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010.[28]

    Death and legacy

    Delaney died from breast cancer and heart failure in 2011, five days before her 73rd birthday, at the home of her daughter Charlotte in Suffolk, England.[2] She is survived by her daughter and three grandchildren.[5]

    In 1986, the Smiths' lead singer and lyricist Morrissey said: "I've never made any secret of the fact that at least 50 per cent of my reason for writing can be blamed on Shelagh Delaney".

    Jo's boyfriend comes over and consoles her, and she asks him to stay with her over Christmas.

    Time jumps ahead to Helen's wedding day, but Jo is sick and unable to be at the ceremony. He and Helen insult Geoffrey for ostensibly being homosexual.