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[[image:Girlfriend_in_a_Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves. This is the sleeve for their [[1987 in music|1987]] [[single (music)|single]], "Girlfriend in a Coma".]]

'''Shelagh Delaney''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]] of [[Ireland|Irish]] descent. She is best known for her play ''A Taste Of Honey''.

===Biography===
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In 1958, ''A Taste of Honey'' was accepted by [[Joan Littlewood]], a famous [[theatre director|director]] of political theatre, who strongly believed that plays should be about ordinary people. It opened in the [[East End]] of [[London]] in May 1958, transferring to the [[West 
End theatre|West End]] early the following year, where it enjoyed a long run and won several awards. In 1960 ''A Taste of Honey'' was staged in [[New York]] and won a drama prize. Two years later Shelagh wrote the [[screenplay]] for the film version, which won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]. 1961 the play was put on screen by director Tony Richardson and starred Rita Tushingham and Dora Bryan. The film turned out to become one of the key-films of the British New Wave of cinema in the [[Sixties]]. At(contracted; show full)*[[A Taste of Honey]] (1958)
*The Lion in Love (1960)
*Sweetly Sings the Donkey (short stories, 1963)

[[Category:1939 births|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:British dramatists and playwrights|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:Living people|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:People of Irish descent in Great Britain|Delaney, Shelagh]]