When I first saw the trailer for ‘Weekend’, written and directed by Andrew Haigh, it seemed to be a tale of two beards that meet in a gay club in Nottingham on a Friday night and then proceed fall for one another over the next couple of days in a… Read More »Friday Night and Sunday Afternoon – Andrew Haigh’s Delightful ‘Weekend’
Shelagh Delaney the Salford-born child-prodigy author of the ground-breaking, hugely influential — and touchingly funny — 1958 play ‘A Taste of Honey’ died at the weekend from cancer, aged 71. Below is a classic Monitor profile of Delaney and Salford from 1960, directed by Ken Russell, no less. Fifty years on Delaney the… Read More »Shelagh Delaney Finally Sails on the Alley Alley-Oh
Hard to believe, but this year Tony Richardson’s wide-eyed 1961 ‘neo-realist’ masterpiece A Taste of Honey, based on a play by Salford playwright prodigy Shelagh Delaney is half a century old. Filmed on location in lyrical black and white when Manchester was still connected to its chimney-stacked ‘dark Satanic’ past,… Read More »A Taste of Honey: Still Sweet Half a Century On