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Albert Finney obituary: an painting who stayed true
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Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney arrived a month early on 25 November 1938, in Broughton, Salford – an environment that was much reflected in her play A TASTE OF HONEY and influenced much of her future work. She had intended that A TASTE OF HONEY would be a novel but realised that her ailing father might not live to see its completion if she didn’t get a move on. Shelagh knew she loved the theatre having seen WAITING FOR GODOT whilst working as an usherette, but she also knew that she rarely saw the characters and the life she knew and recognised. Her father lived to know that her play was not only completed but snapped up by Theatre Royal Stratford East where it was premiered on the 27th May 1958.
The film of A TASTE OF HONEY came out in 1961, directed by Tony Richardson who also co-wrote the adaptation. It won numerous awards, including: the Charles Henry Foyle for best new play, four BAFTA awards, Tushingham and Melvin Best Actress and Actor at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival; and in America the film won Tushingham a 1963 Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer and got Richardson a 1963 Directors Guild of America award nomination. Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson also won a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain award.
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Taste of Honey Playwright Shelagh Delaney dies at 71
Plowright won a Tony award for her performance.
Delaney once described most theatre as "safe, sheltered, cultured lives in charmed surroundings, not life as the majority of ordinary people know it".
She added: "No-one in my play despairs. Like the majority of people, they take in their stride whatever happens to them and remain cheerful."
Delaney's subsequent work never reached the heights of her debut, but she continued to write scripts.
Her second play, The Lion in Love, was produced in 1960 in Coventry, and transferred to the Royal Court in London later that year.
She later wrote for film, TV and radio, including 1967's Charlie Bubbles, starring Albert Finney, and 1977's The House That Jack Built, which was later staged in New York.
She also wrote the screenplay for 1985's Dance With a Stranger, based on the life of Ruth Ellis, who in 1955 was the last woman in the UK to be hanged for shooting her partner.
Directed by Mike Newell, it starred Miranda Richardson as Ellis.
Delaney enjoyed further fame when Morrissey, lead singer with The Smiths, lifted several lines from her plays, including: "I dreamt of you last night and I fell out of bed twice."
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