Shelagh Delaney
| Shelagh Delaney | |
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| Born |
25 November 1938 Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 20 November 2011 (aged 72) Suffolk, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1958–2010 |
| Literary movement | Kitchen sink realism |
| Notable works | A Taste of Honey, The White Bus, Charlie Bubbles, Dance With a Stranger |
| Children | Charlotte Delaney |
Shelagh Delaney, FRSL (/ˈʃiːlə dəˈleɪniː/; 25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her debut work, A Taste of Honey (1958).
Of Irish ancestry, Delaney was born in 1938 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire. She was the daughter of a bus inspector. She failed the eleven plus exam four times, and attended Broughton Secondary Modern school before transferring to a Pendleton High School at the age of fifteen where she gained five O-levels.
Delaney wrote her first play in ten days, after seeing Terence Rattigan's Variations on a Theme (some sources say it was after seeing Waiting for Godot), at the Opera House, Manchester during its pre–West End tour. Delaney felt she could do better than Rattigan, partly because she felt "Variations..." showed "insensitivity in the way Rattigan portrayed homosexuals". Her play, A Taste of Honey, was accepted by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. "Quite apart from its meaty content, we believe we have found a real dramatist", Gerry Raffles of Theatre Workshop said at the time. In the production's programme Delaney was described as "the antithesis of London's 'angry young men'. She knows what she is angry about."
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