LAFPI

Sept. 24 through Nov. 27 at the Odyssey Theatre
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm; Sundays at 2:00 pm

Playwright Shelagh Delaney was just 18 years old when this controversial play rocked the British theater community in May, 1958 with its exhilarating and honest depiction of harsh, working-class life in post-war England. The story of Jo, a working-class adolescent girl, and her relationships with Helen, her saloon-frequenting mother; Peter, her mother’s newly acquired husband; Jimmie, the black sailor who makes Jo pregnant; and Geoff, the homosexual art student who moves into her apartment to help her through her pregnancy, ‘A Taste of Honey’ bursts with energy and daring, an explosive celebration of the vulnerabilities and strengths of the female spirit in a deprived and restless world.